Plantation Slavery in Barbados
An Archaeological and Historical Investigation
Jerome S. Handler
Frederick W. Lange
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 B. Clay Pipes from Newton Plantation Excavations by Crawford H. Blakeman, Jr., and Robert
V. Riordan
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

