Jerome S Handler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome S Handler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome S |
| FAMILY NAME | Handler |
| SIGNATURE | HANDLER J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 451 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Contesting "White Slavery" in the Caribbean
Seventeenth-century reports of the suffering of European indentured servants and the fact that many were transported to Barbados against their wishes has led to a growing body of transatlantic popular literature, particularly dealing with the Irish. This literature claims the existence of "white slavery" in Barbados and, essentially, argues that the harsh labor conditions and sufferings of indentured servants were as bad as or even worse than tha…
Custom and law
The island of Barbados provides an ideal case study to explore the beginnings of slavery and definitions of slave status in England's early American colonies. Africans and Europeans confronted each other earlier and on a larger scale in Barbados than in any other English colony. By tracing the development of slavery from the colony's settlement in 1627 this article argues that the legitimization or legalization of African slavery and the status o…
Production Activities in the Household Economies of Plantation Slaves
Enacting Power
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection fr…
Enacting Power
Escrava Anastácia
This article describes the transformation of an image depicting an unnamed, enslaved African man wearing a metal facemask, a common form of punishment in colonial Brazil, into the iconic representation of the martyred slave Anastácia/Anastasia, the focus of a growing religious and political movement in Brazil. The authors trace the image to an early 19th century engraving based on a drawing by the Frenchman Jacques Arago. Well over a century late…
The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans
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 Middle Passage. This topic has implications for the archaeology of African descendant sites in the New World and the transmission of African material culture. This paper reviews the evidence for clothing, metal, bead, and other …
Philip John CrossKey Dark (1918-2008)
Identifying pictorial images of Atlantic slavery
Survivors of the Middle Passage
2002). Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 25-56
Notes and documents - On the Early Use and Origin of the Term 'Obeah' in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean
(2001). Notes and documents - On the Early Use and Origin of the Term 'Obeah' in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 87-100
Margaret Mead Exhibition at the Library of Congress
Slave medicine and Obeah in Barbados, circa 1650 to 1834
Describes the medical beliefs and practices of Barbadian slaves. Author discusses the role of supernatural forces in slave medicine, the range of beliefs and practices encompassed by the term Obeah, and how the meaning of this term changed over time. He emphasizes the importance of African beliefs and practices on which Barbadian slave medicine fundamentally rested. In the appendix, the author discusses the early use of the term Obeah in Barbados…
Library of Congress Holds Mead Papers
Life histories of enslaved Africans in Barbados
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the article as published in the Slavery & Abolition 1998 copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01440399808575231
An African-Type Healer/Diviner and His Grave Goods
Escaping slavery in a Caribbean plantation society
Disputes the idea that Barbados was too small for slaves to run away. Author describes how slaves in Barbados escaped the plantations despite the constraints of a relatively numerous white population, an organized militia, repressive laws, and deforestation. Concludes that slave flight was an enduring element of Barbadian slave society from the 17th c. to emancipation
A prone burial from a plantation slave cemetery in Barbados, West Indies
Slave Names and Naming in Barbados, 1650-1830
Textual Evidence on the Nature of Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1835
On the evidence of textual attestations from 1676-1835, early Barbadian English is shown to have exhibited many more nonstandard features than is generally recognized. Such features, which are commonly, if not exclusively, found in pidgins and creoles, include vowel epenthesis, paragoge and initial s-deletion processes, creole tense-modality-aspect marking, copula absence, the use of invariant no as a preverbal negative and as an emphatic positiv…
Determining African birth from skeletal remains
Congenital syphilis in the past
Hutchinson's incisors and Moon's molars are specific lesions of congenital syphilis. The extensive but fragmentary clinical literature on these conditions describes reduced dimensions and thin enamel in the permanent incisors and first molars, crowding and infolding of the first molar cusps, notching of the upper incisors, and apical hypoplasias of the permanent canines. A Barbados slave cemetery (ca. 1660–1820 AD) includes three individuals with…
"Supplement to "A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834
Inferring Fertility from Relative Mortality in Historically Controlled Cemetery Remains from Barbados
Fertility (crude birth rate) was estimated from skeletal and corresponding historical relative mortality ratios for a seventeenth- to eighteenth-century Barbados slave population. The estimates varied widely among themselves according to which data source and mortality ratio was used; they also varied from the actual historical fertility rate. In addition, we have raised logical objections to the use of stable model life tables for inferring nons…
Patterning of Skeletal Lead Content in Barbados Slaves
Skeletal lead levels are unexpectedly high (averaging 118 ppm and reaching 424 ppm maximum) in seventeenth to nineteenth century Caribbean slave skull remains. Younger specimens show significantly lower lead concentrations. Historical data confirm the supposition from skeletal lead measurements that blood lead levels probably resulted in lead intoxication symptoms in a significant fraction of this population
Osteology of a slave burial population from Barbados, West Indies
A unique seventeenth–nineteenth century slave cemetery population from Newton plantation, Barbados, allows examination of craniodental characters in relation to ethnohistorical data. Age‐at‐death estimates suggest life expectancy at birth of 29 years and low infant mortality; historical demography, however, suggests life expectancy of 20 years and very high infant mortality. Tooth decay, bilateral tooth loss, periodontal disease, root hypercement…
Plantation Slave Life in Barbados
Plantation Slave Life in Barbados: A Physical Anthropological Analysis Research on slave life in the New World has depended largely on written and, to some extent, on oral sources. To a much lesser degree, albeit with increasing frequency in recent years, scholars interested in New World slavery and Afro-American culture have conducted archaeological field research in plantation slave sites. Although these archaeological investigations are still …
Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves
Jerome S. Handler, Arthur C. Aufderheide, Robert S. Corruccini, Elizabeth M. Brandon, Lorentz E. Wittmers, Jr., Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves: Historical, Chemical, and Biological Evidence, Social Science History, Vol. 10, No. 4, The Biological Past of the Black (Winter, 1986), pp. 399-425
An African-Type Healer/Diviner and His Grave Goods
Patterning of Skeletal Lead Content in Barbados Slaves
Skeletal lead levels are unexpectedly high (averaging 118 ppm and reaching 424 ppm maximum) in seventeenth to nineteenth century Caribbean slave skull remains. Younger specimens show significantly lower lead concentrations. Historical data confirm the supposition from skeletal lead measurements that blood lead levels probably resulted in lead intoxication symptoms in a significant fraction of this population
Tooth mutilation in the Caribbean
Slave medicine and Obeah in Barbados, circa 1650 to 1834
Describes the medical beliefs and practices of Barbadian slaves. Author discusses the role of supernatural forces in slave medicine, the range of beliefs and practices encompassed by the term Obeah, and how the meaning of this term changed over time. He emphasizes the importance of African beliefs and practices on which Barbadian slave medicine fundamentally rested. In the appendix, the author discusses the early use of the term Obeah in Barbados…
Congenital syphilis in the past
Hutchinson's incisors and Moon's molars are specific lesions of congenital syphilis. The extensive but fragmentary clinical literature on these conditions describes reduced dimensions and thin enamel in the permanent incisors and first molars, crowding and infolding of the first molar cusps, notching of the upper incisors, and apical hypoplasias of the permanent canines. A Barbados slave cemetery (ca. 1660–1820 AD) includes three individuals with…
The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans
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 Middle Passage. This topic has implications for the archaeology of African descendant sites in the New World and the transmission of African material culture. This paper reviews the evidence for clothing, metal, bead, and other …
Determining African birth from skeletal remains
Production Activities in the Household Economies of Plantation Slaves
Survivors of the Middle Passage
2002). Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 25-56
Implications of tooth root hypercementosis in a Barbados slave skeletal collection
A 17th‐ to 19th‐century cemetery sample of 104 slaves from Newton Plantation (Barbados) shows uniquely high hypercementosis prevalence, as well as unexpectedly high and variable skeletal lead content. A variety of biological and archeological factors indicates that individuals with lower amounts of these anomalies (relative to age at death) were probably African‐born, first‐generation slaves. The hypercementosis is related to the progression of p…
A prone burial from a plantation slave cemetery in Barbados, West Indies
Weaning among West Indian Slaves
I N an innovative article of I978 Herbert S. Klein and Stanley L. Engerman, addressing the problem of fertility differentials between slave populations of the United States and the British Caribbean, emphasized that the significant difference between the two areas in rates of natural increase is largely explainable by the higher fertility of American slaves. They contended that differences in the child-spacing period could partially account for d…
Inferring Fertility from Relative Mortality in Historically Controlled Cemetery Remains from Barbados
Fertility (crude birth rate) was estimated from skeletal and corresponding historical relative mortality ratios for a seventeenth- to eighteenth-century Barbados slave population. The estimates varied widely among themselves according to which data source and mortality ratio was used; they also varied from the actual historical fertility rate. In addition, we have raised logical objections to the use of stable model life tables for inferring nons…
Enacting Power
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection fr…
Notes and documents - On the Early Use and Origin of the Term 'Obeah' in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean
(2001). Notes and documents - On the Early Use and Origin of the Term 'Obeah' in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 87-100
Small-Scale Sugar Cane Farming in Barbados
Slave Manumissions and Freedmen in Seventeenth-Century Barbados
T SHE wealthy sugar-producing island of Barbados, colonized in I 627, by the late seventeenth century possessed a huge slave population as well as a small but growing number of freedmen (free blacks and mulattoes). The life and socio-legal position of these freedmen during the late eighteenth century and first few decades of the nineteenth have been discussed previously, but lack of source materials has prevented detailed discussion for the seven…
Pottery Making in Rural Barbados
Custom and law
The island of Barbados provides an ideal case study to explore the beginnings of slavery and definitions of slave status in England's early American colonies. Africans and Europeans confronted each other earlier and on a larger scale in Barbados than in any other English colony. By tracing the development of slavery from the colony's settlement in 1627 this article argues that the legitimization or legalization of African slavery and the status o…
Notes on Pottery-Making in Antigua
Contesting "White Slavery" in the Caribbean
Seventeenth-century reports of the suffering of European indentured servants and the fact that many were transported to Barbados against their wishes has led to a growing body of transatlantic popular literature, particularly dealing with the Irish. This literature claims the existence of "white slavery" in Barbados and, essentially, argues that the harsh labor conditions and sufferings of indentured servants were as bad as or even worse than tha…
Escaping slavery in a Caribbean plantation society
Disputes the idea that Barbados was too small for slaves to run away. Author describes how slaves in Barbados escaped the plantations despite the constraints of a relatively numerous white population, an organized militia, repressive laws, and deforestation. Concludes that slave flight was an enduring element of Barbadian slave society from the 17th c. to emancipation
Pottery Making in Rural Barbados
Notes on Pottery-Making in Antigua
Some Aspects of Work Organization on Sugar Plantations in Barbados
Small-Scale Sugar Cane Farming in Barbados
English Rustics in Black Skin
A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1626-1834
The Unappropriated People
(1974). The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 200-200
The Unappropriated People
Journal Article The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados. By Jerome S. Handler. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. xii + 225 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $10.00.) Get access David H. Makinson David H. Makinson Wayne State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 4, March 1975, Pages 1108–1109, ht…
The Unappropriated People
Plantation Slavery in Barbados
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. …
Plantation Slavery in Barbados
Journal Article Plantation Slavery in Barbados: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation. By Jerome S. Handler, Frederick W. Lange, and Robert V. Riordan. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. xiii + 368 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $20.00.) Get access Richard S. Dunn Richard S. Dunn University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Plantation Slavery in Barbados
Obituaries
Plantation Slavery in Barbados
Osteology of a slave burial population from Barbados, West Indies
A unique seventeenth–nineteenth century slave cemetery population from Newton plantation, Barbados, allows examination of craniodental characters in relation to ethnohistorical data. Age‐at‐death estimates suggest life expectancy at birth of 29 years and low infant mortality; historical demography, however, suggests life expectancy of 20 years and very high infant mortality. Tooth decay, bilateral tooth loss, periodontal disease, root hypercement…
Tooth mutilation in the Caribbean
Slave revolts and conspiracies in seventeenth-century Barbados
For the somewhat more than two centuries that constituted the slave period in Barbados, the island experienced only one actual slave uprising. This erupted on the night of Easter Sunday on April 14, 1 8 1 6, but it lasted no more than a day or two. Prior to the 1 8 1 6 uprising, the last recorded serious alarm of Barbados's whites concerning the possibility of an insurrection occurred in late 1 70 1 . During the latter half of the 1 7th century, …
Plantation Slave Life in Barbados
Plantation Slave Life in Barbados: A Physical Anthropological Analysis Research on slave life in the New World has depended largely on written and, to some extent, on oral sources. To a much lesser degree, albeit with increasing frequency in recent years, scholars interested in New World slavery and Afro-American culture have conducted archaeological field research in plantation slave sites. Although these archaeological investigations are still …
Slave Manumissions and Freedmen in Seventeenth-Century Barbados
T SHE wealthy sugar-producing island of Barbados, colonized in I 627, by the late seventeenth century possessed a huge slave population as well as a small but growing number of freedmen (free blacks and mulattoes). The life and socio-legal position of these freedmen during the late eighteenth century and first few decades of the nineteenth have been discussed previously, but lack of source materials has prevented detailed discussion for the seven…
Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves
Jerome S. Handler, Arthur C. Aufderheide, Robert S. Corruccini, Elizabeth M. Brandon, Lorentz E. Wittmers, Jr., Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves: Historical, Chemical, and Biological Evidence, Social Science History, Vol. 10, No. 4, The Biological Past of the Black (Winter, 1986), pp. 399-425
Weaning among West Indian Slaves
I N an innovative article of I978 Herbert S. Klein and Stanley L. Engerman, addressing the problem of fertility differentials between slave populations of the United States and the British Caribbean, emphasized that the significant difference between the two areas in rates of natural increase is largely explainable by the higher fertility of American slaves. They contended that differences in the child-spacing period could partially account for d…
Patterning of Skeletal Lead Content in Barbados Slaves
Skeletal lead levels are unexpectedly high (averaging 118 ppm and reaching 424 ppm maximum) in seventeenth to nineteenth century Caribbean slave skull remains. Younger specimens show significantly lower lead concentrations. Historical data confirm the supposition from skeletal lead measurements that blood lead levels probably resulted in lead intoxication symptoms in a significant fraction of this population
Implications of tooth root hypercementosis in a Barbados slave skeletal collection
A 17th‐ to 19th‐century cemetery sample of 104 slaves from Newton Plantation (Barbados) shows uniquely high hypercementosis prevalence, as well as unexpectedly high and variable skeletal lead content. A variety of biological and archeological factors indicates that individuals with lower amounts of these anomalies (relative to age at death) were probably African‐born, first‐generation slaves. The hypercementosis is related to the progression of p…
Inferring Fertility from Relative Mortality in Historically Controlled Cemetery Remains from Barbados
Fertility (crude birth rate) was estimated from skeletal and corresponding historical relative mortality ratios for a seventeenth- to eighteenth-century Barbados slave population. The estimates varied widely among themselves according to which data source and mortality ratio was used; they also varied from the actual historical fertility rate. In addition, we have raised logical objections to the use of stable model life tables for inferring nons…
Congenital syphilis in the past
Hutchinson's incisors and Moon's molars are specific lesions of congenital syphilis. The extensive but fragmentary clinical literature on these conditions describes reduced dimensions and thin enamel in the permanent incisors and first molars, crowding and infolding of the first molar cusps, notching of the upper incisors, and apical hypoplasias of the permanent canines. A Barbados slave cemetery (ca. 1660–1820 AD) includes three individuals with…
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