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Trevor Graeme Burnard (15 October 1960 – 19 July 2024) was a New Zealander historian. He was a specialist in the history of slavery in the Atlantic world.

Early life and education

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Burnard was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and grew up in the suburb of Green Island, where he attended the local primary school, Green Island School. It was at this school that he first developed an interest in history. Subsequently, his family moved to Invercargill, and Burnard attended Southland Boys' High School. Burnard completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Otago, graduating in 1983 with first-class honours in history. He later explained: "My history teachers at Otago were spectacular and made me want to do what they did," citing, in particular, Michael Cullen and Dorothy Page.[1][2]

Burnard completed his doctoral research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States, under the supervision of Jack P. Greene, graduating in 1986 with an MA and in 1989 with a PhD. His thesis was on plantation owners of Maryland and was later published, in 2002, as Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691–1776.[1][2]

Academic career

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While finishing his PhD at Johns Hopkins, in 1987 Burnard was appointed as a lecturer in history at the University of the West Indies, Mona in Jamaica. He later stated that his mentor at Mona was Barry W. Higman, whom he described as "the best of a stellar generation of historians who were born in Australia in the 1940s." During his time at Mona, Burnard said he did "the archival work on early Jamaica that has sustained me for my entire career."[1] He recalled developing "an abiding interest in Jamaican history as a result of frequent visits to the Jamaica Archives in Spanish Town, driving an ancient VW Beetle in the days before the road between Kingston and Spanish Town became clogged with traffic."[3]

After a brief appointment as a lecturer in history in 1989 at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, Burnard was hired as a lecturer at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1990.[4]

Burnard was professor of history at the University of Hull, where he was the Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation .[5] He was formerly at the University of Warwick[6] and the University of Melbourne.[7] He was a member of the editorial board of the journal Slavery and Abolition.[8] Burnard died on 19 July 2024, at the age of 63.[9]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • 2023, Writing the History of Global Slavery[10]
  • The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica[11]
  • Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World[12]
  • Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691–1776[13][14][15]
  • The Idea of Atlantic History: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
  • Colonization of English America: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
  • British Atlantic World: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
  • American Revolution: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
  • Planters, Merchants, and Slaves[16]
  • Hearing Slaves Speak, Guyana Classics Library,[17] Caribbean Press, 2010. ISBN 9781907493171.

Selected articles and book chapters

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  • "A Passion For Places: The Geographic Turn In Early American History", Commonplace, July 2008.[18]
  • "The Other British Colonies". In W. Klooster (ed.), The Enlightenment and the British Colonesi (248–68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.[19]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Q&A with Professor Trevor Burnard". Australian Historical Association Early Career Researchers. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  2. ^ a b Rice, Geoffrey W. (16 August 2024). "Life story: A passion for investigating the past". The Press. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  3. ^ "About". trevorburnard.com. Archived from the original on 6 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  4. ^ Burnard, Trevor (2015). "Curriculum Vitae". Academia.edu. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
  5. ^ "Professor Trevor Burnard - The University of Hull". www.hull.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Former Member of Staff: Professor Trevor Burnard". Warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  7. ^ "PROF Trevor Burnard - The University of Melbourne". Findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  8. ^ "Honouring the life and legacy of Professor Trevor Burnard". University of Hull, Wilberforce Institute. 22 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  9. ^ Banfield-Nwachi, Mabel (22 July 2024). "Tributes paid to UK historian lauded for work on Atlantic slavery". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  10. ^ Burnard, Trevor (2023). Writing the History of Global Slavery. doi:10.1017/9781009406284. ISBN 978-1-009-40628-4. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  11. ^ "The Plantation Machine - Trevor Burnard, John Garrigus". Upenn.edu. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  12. ^ "Kelley on Burnard, 'Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo Jamaican World' and Trevor Burnard, 'Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World' - H-Atlantic - H-Net". Networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  13. ^ "Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776". CRC Press. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  14. ^ Evans, Emory G. (1 June 2003). "Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691– 1776". Journal of American History. 90 (1): 205–206. doi:10.2307/3659810. JSTOR 3659810. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  15. ^ Murphy, Thomas; J, S. (1 February 2003). "Trevor Burnard. Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691–1776. (New World in the Atlantic World.) New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. ix, 278. Cloth $85.00, paper $23.95". The American Historical Review. 108 (1): 185. doi:10.1086/ahr/108.1.185.
  16. ^ Planters, Merchants, and Slaves. American Beginnings, 1500-1900. Press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  17. ^ "HEARING SLAVES SPEAK by TREVOR BURNARD". Guyana Chronicle. 2 August 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  18. ^ Burnard, Trevor (July 2008). "A Passion For Places: The Geographic Turn In Early American History". Commonplace: the journal of early American life (8.4). Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  19. ^ Burnard, Trevor (2023). "The Other British Colonies". In Klooster, W. (ed.). The Enlightenment and the British Colonies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 248–68. doi:10.1017/9781108567671.
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