Plantation Slavery in Barbados : An Archaeological and Historical Investigation / Jerome S. Handler, Frederick W. Lange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Handler, Jerome S., author.

Lange, Frederick W., author.

Contributor:

Riordan, Robert V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barbados--Antiquities.

HISTORY / Latin America / General.

Plantation life--Barbados--History.

Slavery--Barbados--History.

Local Subjects:

Barbados--Antiquities.

HISTORY / Latin America / General.

Plantation life--Barbados--History.

Slavery--Barbados--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here is the first detailed investigation of plantation slave life in Barbados from earliest times until 1838. The authors have visited slave village sites, and their intensive excavation of a slave cemetery has yielded a wealth of material pertaining to mortuary practices and other dimensions of social and material life. Handler and Lange have also examined and extensively integrated the written records to amplify and cross-check their findings. Based on the methodologies of archaeology, history, and ethnography, Plantation Slavery in Barbados explores new ways to reconstruct the culture of a social group that left few historical records. As a description of the organization and development of the plantation system in Barbados, it is a model work in the burgeoning fields of slavery studies, historical anthropology, and Caribbean history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

FIGURES

TABLES

1. INTRODUCTION

2. BARBADOS: GEOGRAPHY, ECONOMY, DEMOGRAPHY, AND HISTORY

3. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT: METHODOLOGY AND SURVEY SUMMARY

4. NEWTON PLANTATION: HISTORY AND THE SLAVE POPULATION

5. NEWTON PLANTATION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS

6. THE MORTUARY PATTERNS OF PLANTATION SLAVES

7. THE ETHNOHISTORICAL APPROACH TO SLAVERY

APPENDIX A. EXCAVATION SUMMARY: NEWTON CEMETERY

APPENDIX Β. CLAY PIPES FROM NEWTON PLANTATION EXCAVATIONS

APPENDIX C. CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BEADS FROM NEWTON CEMETERY

APPENDIX D. A COMPARISON OF THE HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL POPULATIONS AT NEWTON PLANTATION

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-33236-9

OCLC:

298105230