Professor Trevor Burnard

Professor Trevor Burnard

Director of The Wilberforce Institute

Faculty and Department

  • Institutes
  • Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation

Summary

Trevor Burnard is a scholar of early American, imperial, world and Atlantic history, with a special interest in plantation societies in the New World and their connections to eighteenth-century modernity. Particular interests include slavery, social history and demography, imperialism, economic and business history, and gender. His work over the last decade has been especially concerned with identity in the New World in the eighteenth century and with how settler societies have been formed, or have failed to form in plantation societies in the Caribbean and the Chesapeake.

Recent outputs

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Book

Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution

Burnard, T. (in press). Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press

Book Chapter

Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean

Burnard, T. (2023). Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean. In D. A. Pargas, & J. Schiel (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History (395-412). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13260-5_22

'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution

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

Journal Article

Commerce and Credit: Female Credit Networks in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica

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

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

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

Lead investigator

Project

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Started

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Project

Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre

Funder

AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council

Grant

£194,565.00

Started

1 October 2019

Status

Ongoing

Project

Slavery, Sugar, Race: Australia’s South Sea Islander Labourers

Funder

Australian Research Council

Grant

£16,689.00

Started

1 January 2022

Status

Ongoing

Co-investigator

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Started

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Project

The University of Hull Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Centre on Water Cultures

Funder

The Leverhulme Trust

Grant

£1,350,000.00

Started

1 June 2021

Status

Ongoing

Project

QR-GCRF 20.21.PPF13 - Strengthening Geoscience Education for Sustainable Development in Kenya

Funder

00 University of Hull

Grant

£23,076.00

Started

1 May 2021

Status

Complete

Project

Decolonising UK Earth Science pedagogy - from the hidden histories of our geological institutions to inclusive curricula

Funder

AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council

Grant

£87,300.00

Started

4 January 2022

Status

Complete

Project

Policy Reform for the Victims of Modern Slavery

Funder

00 University of Hull

Grant

£0.00

Started

1 January 2022

Status

Complete

Project

Taking The Knee

Funder

HCC Hull City Council

Grant

£3,000.00

Started

1 February 2023

Status

Complete

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