All Outputs (7)

Slavery and its definition (2012)
Journal Article
Allain, J., & Bales, K. (2012). Slavery and its definition. Global Dialogue, 14(2), 6-14

Had the abolitionists of the past, the likes of Abraham Lincoln or William Wilberforce, been able to see into the twenty-first century, what might have struck them as very strange was that while they had come far in ending slavery and suppressing hum... Read More about Slavery and its definition.

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)
Journal Article
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.

Caribbean slavery, British anti-slavery, and the cultural politics of venereal disease (2012)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Follett, R. (2012). Caribbean slavery, British anti-slavery, and the cultural politics of venereal disease. The Historical journal, 55(2), 427-451. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X11000513

Venereal disease was commonplace among free and enslaved populations in colonial Caribbean societies. This article considers how contemporaries (both in the empire and metropole) viewed venereal infection and how they associated it with gendered noti... Read More about Caribbean slavery, British anti-slavery, and the cultural politics of venereal disease.

Repairing Historical Wrongs: Public History and Transatlantic Slavery (2012)
Journal Article
Oldfield, J. (2012). Repairing Historical Wrongs: Public History and Transatlantic Slavery. Social & legal studies, 21(2), 243 - 255. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663911435520

On both sides of the Atlantic, states have tended to react nervously to reparative claims for slavery, just as they have tended to be wary of making apologies of any kind. In the absence of more radical gestures, public history has taken on an added... Read More about Repairing Historical Wrongs: Public History and Transatlantic Slavery.

Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674-1784 (2012)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2012). Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674-1784. Atlantic Studies: Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives, 9(1), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2012.636993

The decline of West Indian planters in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was both remarkable and, to an extent, inexplicable outside the context of a determined abolitionist onslaught against them. During the eighteenth century, plan... Read More about Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674-1784.

Making a whig empire work: Transatlantic politics and the imperial economy in Britain and British America (2012)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2012). Making a whig empire work: Transatlantic politics and the imperial economy in Britain and British America. William and Mary Quarterly, 69(1), 51-56. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.69.1.0051

Mercantilism has been an important organizing concept not only for Atlantic and early American history but for the disciplines of sociology, economics, and political science as well. What do scholars mean by mercantilism? This article demonstrates th... Read More about Making a whig empire work: Transatlantic politics and the imperial economy in Britain and British America.