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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.

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.

The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800 (2011)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Potofsky, A. (2011). The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800. French History, 25(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crq068

Three of the articles in this special issue (Covo, Forestier and Mandelblatt) were presented at a workshop devoted to the political economy of the French Caribbean and the French Atlantic, held at the University of Warwick on 30 November 2009. Thanks... Read More about The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800.

Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800 (2011)
Book Chapter
Richardson, D. (2011). Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800. In D. Eltis, & S. L. Engerman (Eds.), The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume 3: AD 1420-AD 1804 (563-593). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521840682.024

Any investigation of involuntary migration in the early modern period must recognize that trafficking in human beings was an important feature of life in both the New and the Old Worlds in the period 1500-1800. This chapter focuses on involuntary mig... Read More about Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800.

Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820 (2011)
Book
Oldfield, J. R. (2011). Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139344272

Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution offers a fresh exploration of anti-slavery debates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It challenges traditional perceptions of early anti-slavery activity as an entirely parochia... Read More about Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820.

Worth, age, and social status in early modern England (2010)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J., & Shepard, A. (2011). Worth, age, and social status in early modern England. The Economic history review, 64(2), 493-530. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00533.x

This article introduces a new source for assessing the distribution of wealth in early modern England derived from witness depositions taken by the church courts. It discusses the accuracy of statements of ‘worth’ provided by thousands of witnesses b... Read More about Worth, age, and social status in early modern England.

British West Indies and Bermuda (2010)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2010). British West Indies and Bermuda. In R. L. Paquette, & M. M. Smith (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (134-153). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227990.013.0007

© the various contributors 2010. All rights reserved. This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in the British West Indies and Bermuda. The British West Indies differed from other places colonized by the British in... Read More about British West Indies and Bermuda.

(Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer (2010)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2010). (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer. In C. Kaplan, & J. Oldfield (Eds.), Imagining Transatlantic Slavery (33-46). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277106_3

In recent years we have become accustomed to thinking of abolition, and specifically the campaign against the transatlantic slave trade, as a grass roots movement. Narrating the history of the early abolitionist movement from below is problematic, ho... Read More about (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer.

Cultures of exchange: Atlantic Africa in the era of the slave trade (2009)
Journal Article
Richardson, D. (2009). Cultures of exchange: Atlantic Africa in the era of the slave trade. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 19, 151-179. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080440109990089

Cultural factors have often been invoked to explain parliament's decision in 1807 to outlaw slave carrying by British subjects but they have only infrequently been cited in efforts to explain why the Atlantic slave trade itself became so large in the... Read More about Cultures of exchange: Atlantic Africa in the era of the slave trade.

Extending the frontiers: Essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database (2008)
Book
Richardson, D., & Eltis, D. (Eds.). (2008). Extending the frontiers: Essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300134360.001.0001

Since 1999, intensive research efforts have vastly increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A huge database of slave trade voyages from Columbus' era to the mid-nineteenth century is now available on an... Read More about Extending the frontiers: Essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database.

'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery (2007)
Book
Oldfield, J. (2007). 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery. Manchester: Manchester University Press

How should we as Britons remember transatlantic slavery? How has slavery been remembered in the past? 'Chords of freedom' sets out to answer these questions and, in doing so, traces the way in which British transatlantic slavery has been absorbed int... Read More about 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery.