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Dale W. Tomich, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias, and Rafael de Bivar Marquese. Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (2022)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2022). Dale W. Tomich, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias, and Rafael de Bivar Marquese. Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. American Historical Review, 127(4), 2031-2033. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac439

First paragraph: Slavery was under attack in the Americas during the nineteenth century just as it reached the plantation as a form of agricultural production. In this stunning book, Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the... Read More about Dale W. Tomich, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias, and Rafael de Bivar Marquese. Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World.

Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African Company In Jamaica, 1674-1708 (2022)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2022). Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African Company In Jamaica, 1674-1708. In J. Black (Ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade, Volume II : Seventeenth Century (185-209). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362449

On 4 June 1677, the Morning Star, a ship belonging to the Royal African Company, moored at Port Royal, Jamaica. This chapter analyses the records of a major supplier of slaves, the Royal African Company, in Jamaica, between 1674 and 1708, years in wh... Read More about Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African Company In Jamaica, 1674-1708.

'The countrie continues sicklie': White mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780 (2022)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2022). 'The countrie continues sicklie': White mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780. In J. Black (Ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade, Volume II : Seventeenth Century (231-258). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362449

The tropical regions of the New World in the early modern era offered European migrants great wealth but were also demographically deadly. This paper presents hard data on white mortality in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jamaica and shows that... Read More about 'The countrie continues sicklie': White mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780.

'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution (2022)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. G. (2022). 'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution. In J. Black (Ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade : Volume III : Eighteenth Century (265-283). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362494

When eighteenth-century Britons contemplated their possessions in the West Indies what struck them most was the wealth of these small tropical islands. This chapter reports new estimates about how much wealth Europeans possessed in Jamaica on the eve... Read More about 'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution.

Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years (2022)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Games, A. (2022). Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years. Early American Studies, 20(4), 549-556. https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2022.0018

A brief essay introducing a special issue devoted to exploring the scholarly legacies of Richard S. Dunn's Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English, 1624–1713, first published in 1972, upon the fiftieth anniversary of the work. Read More about Introduction: Sugar and Slaves after Fifty Years.

The Demise of the Royal African Compay and Changes in Slave Sales in Jamaica in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1698-1720 (2022)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2022). The Demise of the Royal African Compay and Changes in Slave Sales in Jamaica in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1698-1720. In M. Michaud, E. Sinardet, & B. Van Ruymbeke (Eds.), Ici, là-bas, ailleurs : Le transnationalisme aux Amériques (XVIe-XIXe siècles) (71-84). Rennes: Les perseides

Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995: selective humanity in the Anglophone World (2022)
Book
Damousi, J., Burnard, T., & Lester, A. (Eds.). (2022). Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995: selective humanity in the Anglophone World. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansion, consolidation and postcolonial transformation of the Anglophone world across three centuries, from the antislavery campaign of the late eighteenth... Read More about Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995: selective humanity in the Anglophone World.