Plantation Slavery in Barbados: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation

Handler, Jerome S., Frederick W. Lange, Robert V. Riordan, Plantation Slavery in Barbados: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Reviewed in The William and Mary Quarterly © 1980.

Reviewed in Historical Archaeology © 1981.

See also Jerome S. Handler.

From the inner sleeve of the book:

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.