Plantation Slavery in Barbados : : An Archaeological and Historical Investigation / / Jerome S. Handler, Frederick W. Lange.
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 soc...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1978 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; illustrated |
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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