Select an article from below. Write a vocabulary list, an outline for your chosen article and a one page response paper. All work is to be typed.
The articles appear on Jerome S. Handler's website. If for any reason the article link does not connect you, I have provided the main web page link below.
"This website brings together a selected list of my publications which have appeared since the early 1960’s in widely scattered sources. These publications treat a variety of topics dealing with slavery in Barbados and the Atlantic World as well as some aspects of production activities in modern rural Barbados." Jerome. S. Handler. Link here.
2009 (J.S. Handler and K. E. Hayes), Escrava Anastácia: The Iconographic History of a Brazilian Popular Saint. African Diaspora: Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World 2: 1-27.
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 later, Arago’s image increasingly became associated with a corpus of myths describing the virtuous suffering and painful death of a female slave named Anastácia. By the 1990s, Arago’s image (and variations of it), now identified as the martyred Anastácia/Anastasia, had proliferated throughout Brazil, an object of devotion for Catholics and practitioners of Umbanda, as well as a symbol of black pride. Link here for article.
2009 The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans. Slavery and Abolition 30: 1-26.
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 jewelry, amulets, tobacco pipes, musical instruments, and gaming materials. In so doing, the paper provides an empirical foundation for the severe limitations placed upon enslaved Africans in transporting their material culture to the New World. Link here for article.
2009 (J. S. Handler and S. Bergman), Vernacular Houses and Domestic Material Culture on Barbados Sugar Plantations, 1650-1838. Jl of Caribbean History 43: 1-36.
This paper describes the houses and household furnishings of the enslaved people on Barbadian sugar plantations, and traces the development and changes in architectural forms, including wattle-and-daub, stone, and wooden plank dwellings, over the several centuries of slavery on the island. We also treat the housing policies of plantation owners/managers, and explore possible Afncan and European cultural influences on the Barbadian vernacular housing tradition that emerged during the period of slavery. Link here for article.
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