http://jeromehandler.org This website brings together a selected list of my publications which have appeared since the early 1960’s in widely scattered sources. These publications treat a variety of topics dealing with slavery in Barbados and the Atlantic World as well as some aspects of production activities in modern rural Barbados. Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:52:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 2009 (M. W. Hauser and J. Handler), Change in Small Scale Pottery Manufacture in Antigua, West Indies. African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. December. Today, in a handful of Caribbean islands (e.g., Jamaica, Martinique, Barbados, Antigua, Nevis, and St. Lucia), persons of African descent continue to manufacture earthenware pottery, generally somewhat loosely and variously ... http://jeromehandler.org/2009/12/797/ 2009   (J. S. Handler and S. Bergman), Vernacular Houses and Domestic Material Culture on Barbados Sugar Plantations, 1650-1838.  Jl of Caribbean History 43: 1-36. This paper describes the houses and household furnishings of the enslaved people on Barbadian sugar plantations, and traces the development and changes in architectural forms, including ... http://jeromehandler.org/2009/09/vernacular-houses-and-domestic-material-culture-on-barbados-sugar-plantations-1650-1838/ 2009  The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans.  Slavery and Abolition 30: 1-26. Scholars of the Atlantic slave trade have not systematically addressed the question of what material objects or personal belongings captive Africans took aboard the slave ships and what goods they may have acquired on the ... http://jeromehandler.org/2009/07/the-middle-passage-and-the-material-culture-of-captive-africans/ 2009  Gizzard Stones, Wari in the New World, and Slave Ships: Some Research Questions.  African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. June. Argues that archaeologically recovered so-called gizzard stones were not utilized for playing wari, the African board game, by African descended populations in the United States, reviews documentary and ethnographic evidence for the ... http://jeromehandler.org/2009/06/gizzard-stones-wari-in-the-new-world-and-slave-ships-some-research-questions/ 2009  (J.S. Handler and K. E. Hayes), Escrava Anastácia: The Iconographic History of a Brazilian Popular Saint.  African Diaspora: Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World 2: 1-27. This article describes the transformation of an image depicting an unnamed, enslaved African man wearing a metal facemask, a common form of ... http://jeromehandler.org/2009/01/the-iconographic-history-of-a-brazilian-popular-saint/ 2009 (J.S. Handler and M. Tuite)  The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. The approximately 1,235 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool ... http://jeromehandler.org/2009/01/the-atlantic-slave-trade-and-slave-life-in-the-americas-a-visual-record/ 2008  Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the Middle Passage.  African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. June. This paper briefly addresses tobacco consumption and pipe smoking in Western Africa, and the relevance of these practices to the Atlantic slave trade as well as to the material culture of captive ... http://jeromehandler.org/2008/06/aspects-of-the-atlantic-slave-trade-smoking-pipes-tobacco-and-the-middle-passage/ 2007  (J. Handler and N. Norman), From West Africa to Barbados: A Rare Pipe from a Plantation Slave Cemetery. African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. September. Discusses a distinctive short-stemmed earthenware pipe that was excavated in a plantation slave cemetery in Barbados in the early 1970s; since its excavation nothing similar has ... http://jeromehandler.org/2007/09/from-west-africa-to-barbados-a-rare-pipe-from-a-plantation-slave-cemetery/ 2006, 2007  Bibliographic Addenda to Guides for the Study of Barbados History, 1971 & 1991: Installment One, Installment Two. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. Vol 52: 35-53; Vol 53: 199-211. Published and some manuscript materials that have come to my attention since the publication of "A Guide to ... http://jeromehandler.org/2007/01/bibliographic-addenda-to-guides-for-the-study-of-barbados-history-1971-1991-installment-two/ 2007  From Cambay in India to Barbados in the Caribbean: Two Unique Beads from a Plantation Slave Cemetery. African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. March.  In the early 1970s, archaeological investigations at Newton plantation in Barbados recovered the skeletal remains of 104 individuals, interred from approximately 1660 to around 1820. Twelve of ... http://jeromehandler.org/2007/01/from-cambay-in-india-to-barbados-in-the-caribbean-two-unique-beads-from-a-plantation-slave-cemetery/