All Outputs (5)

After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire (2013)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2013). After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire. In M. Taylor (Ed.), The Victorian Empire and Britain’s Maritime World, 1837–1901 : The Sea and Global History (43-63). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312662_3

In the 26 years between 1807 and 1833, Britain not only put an end to its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, but also abolished slavery in the British Caribbean. These momentous events figure largely in the nation’s imagination and, indeed... Read More about After emancipation : slavery, freedom and the Victorian empire.

Pawns on the Gold Coast: the rise of Asante and shifts in security for debt, 1680-1750 (2013)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J. (2013). Pawns on the Gold Coast: the rise of Asante and shifts in security for debt, 1680-1750. Journal of African history, 54(2), 147-175. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853713000297

In the seventeenth century, Europeans on the Gold Coast took gold pawns as security for debt, but from the early eighteenth century, they turned increasingly toward the use of human pawns. This shift was the result of a transformation in levels of de... Read More about Pawns on the Gold Coast: the rise of Asante and shifts in security for debt, 1680-1750.

Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of modernity (2013)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2016). Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of modernity. In J. Cañizares-Esguerra, M. D. Childs, & J. Sidbury (Eds.), The Black urban Atlantic in the age of the slave trade : the early modern Americas (122-144). Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press). https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208139

Copyright © 2013 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur is one of the key delineators of the American national character, a man whose Letters from an American Farmer has a canonical status in early Ame... Read More about Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of modernity.

Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South (2013)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2013). Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South. In B. Ward, M. Bone, & W. A. Link (Eds.), The American South and the Atlantic world (129-148). Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813044378.003.0007

This historiographical chapter argues that, for all its many achievements, Atlantic History’s early modern fixation has exacerbated an unhelpful division between American colonial historians, who have been increasingly committed to Atlanto-centric pe... Read More about Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South.

A compound mongrel mixture': Racially coded humor, satire, and the denigration of white Creoles in the British Empire, 1784-1834 (2013)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2013). A compound mongrel mixture': Racially coded humor, satire, and the denigration of white Creoles in the British Empire, 1784-1834. In E. C. Mansfield, & K. Malone (Eds.), Seeing satire in the eighteenth century (149-165). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation for Enlightenment Studies