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Handler Receives Grant For Slave Society Research
Southern Illinois University anthropologist Jerome S. Handler has received a grant from the American Philosophical Society to continue studying the cultural and social life of enslaved Africans in the West Indies during the 17th to early 19th centuries. The project will examine how African immigrants preserved or altered their heritage under sugar plantation systems and slavery, with previous work done in the West Indies, England, and Ireland.
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