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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Handler, Jerome S.,; Lange, Frederick W.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Riordan, Robert V.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; illustrated

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.

Table of 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