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Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica (2023)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Haggerty, S. (in press). Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica. Enterprise & society, https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2023.2

Recent work on white women in Jamaica has shown that they were active participants in Jamaica’s slave economy. This article adds to this recent literature through an innovative use of social network analysis (SNA) to examine the credit networks in wh... Read More about Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica.

The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834 (2021)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Coleman, D. (in press). The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834. Atlantic Studies: Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.1899745

In 1775, on a tour of the West Indies, Henry Smeathman produced a sketch entitled Creole Delicacy or The Domestic Felicity of Africans in the West Indies (published 1788). The image depicts a flogging presided over by an elegantly dressed white woman... Read More about The savage slave mistress: Punishing women in the British Caribbean, 1750–1834.

Tropical Hospitality, British Masculinity, and Drink in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica (2021)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (in press). Tropical Hospitality, British Masculinity, and Drink in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica. The Historical journal, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X2100025X

White Jamaicans developed a drinking culture that drew on British precedents, but which mutated in the tropics into a form of sociability different from how sociability operated in mid-eighteenth Enlightenment Europe, where civility was a much-aspire... Read More about Tropical Hospitality, British Masculinity, and Drink in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica.

Sir John Gladstone and the Debate over the Amelioration of Slavery in the British West Indies in the 1820s (2018)
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Burnard, T., & Candlin, K. (2018). Sir John Gladstone and the Debate over the Amelioration of Slavery in the British West Indies in the 1820s. Journal of British Studies, 57(4), 760-782. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2018.115

© 2018 The North American Conference on British Studies. Sir John Gladstone made a fortune as a Demerara sugar-planter and a key supporter of the British policy of amelioration in which slavery would be improved by making it more humane. Unlike resid... Read More about Sir John Gladstone and the Debate over the Amelioration of Slavery in the British West Indies in the 1820s.

Living costs, real incomes and inequality in colonial Jamaica (2018)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., Panza, L., & Williamson, J. (2019). Living costs, real incomes and inequality in colonial Jamaica. Explorations in Economic History, 71, 55-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2018.09.002

© 2018 This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of colonial Jamaican real incomes and income inequality. We collect local prices to construct cost of living and purchasing power parity indicators. The latter lowers Jamaica's GDP per capi... Read More about Living costs, real incomes and inequality in colonial Jamaica.

Harvest years? Reconfigurations of empire in Jamaica, 1756-1807 (2012)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2012). Harvest years? Reconfigurations of empire in Jamaica, 1756-1807. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40(4), 533-555. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2012.724234

At the end of the Seven Years' War, Jamaican planters were in an extremely strong position within the British Empire. Immensely wealthy, geopolitically important and constitutionally assertive, Jamaican planters used their strong position to win a se... Read More about Harvest years? Reconfigurations of empire in Jamaica, 1756-1807.

Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A new look at comparative urbanization in plantation colonial British America (2012)
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Burnard, T., & Hart, E. (2013). Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A new look at comparative urbanization in plantation colonial British America. Journal of Urban History, 39(2), 214-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144211435125

Customarily, studies of urbanization in early British America have concentrated on its northern mainland seaports. This article moves beyond a thirteen colonies perspective to define and explore a Greater Caribbean urban world, with Charleston, South... Read More about Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A new look at comparative urbanization in plantation colonial British America.

Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism (2011)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2011). Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism. Slavery & Abolition, 32(2), 185-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2011.568231

This essay focuses on the competing identities that came to be associated with British West Indians during the foundational period of British abolitionism. The essay evaluates the competing images of the West Indian planter class, paying particular a... Read More about Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism.