Trevor Burnard (1961–2024)
Author of Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
About the Author
Trevor Burnard is professor in and head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Works by Trevor Burnard
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (2004) 106 copies, 1 review
The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (The Early Modern Americas) (2016) 43 copies
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- Legal name
- Burnard, Trevor Graeme
- Birthdate
- 1961-10-15
- Date of death
- 2024-07-19
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Otago, New Zealand (B.A. ∙ history ∙ 1983)
Johns Hopkins University (M.A. ∙ history ∙ 1985)
Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D. ∙ history ∙ 1988) - Occupations
- historian
university professor - Organizations
- University of Melbourne
University of Sussex
University of Warwick
Brunel University
University of Canterbury, Christchurch
University of Waikato (show all 11)
University of the West Indies
British Group of Early American Historians
Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association
European Early American Studies Association
University of Hull, Wilberforce Institute (director) - Short biography
- Trevor Burnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull and Director of the Wilberforce Institute. He is a specialist in the Atlantic World and slavery in plantation societies. He is the author of Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (2020); The Atlantic World, 1492-1830 (2020); and Britain and the World, 1607-1815 (2020). He recently curated a special forum in the journal, Slavery and Abolition on Black Lives Matter and Slavery and is curating, with Alison Games, a special issue on early Caribbean History in Early American Studies. He is a member of the senior management board of the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre.
https://blog.history.ac.uk/2022/05/the... - Cause of death
- cancer
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Birthplace
- Dunedin, New Zealand
- Places of residence
- New Zealand
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Monain Kingston, Jamaica
Canterbury, New Zealand
Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK (show all 10)
Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK
Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard
Burnard does an excellent job of analyzing the life of Thomas Thistlewood from his diaries, which are long on facts but scant on any analysis. Thistlewood was your sort of typical Jamaican slave overseer and owner, though he may have been overeager to "rape" the slaves under his charge. That and, unlike white Jamaicans of his time and station, he was attuned to the Enlightenment and a voracious reader for a colonial backwater (though Burnard makes clear that Jamaica was, with the possible show more exception of India, the jewel in the Crown of the British Empire). Why would a man in touch with Enlightenment ideals on one hand, a fierce proponent of Jamaica's white egalitarianism, hold countless black slaves "in miserable slavery"? Burnard believes that Thistlewood quickly bought into the idea that blacks were of a race different than whites, and thus deserving of slavery.
Burnard writes well, and the subject matter is interesting enough to keep the reader's attention, though he repeats himself a bit too much. The parts about Thistlewood's intellectual and gentlemanly pursuits was very interesting to me. A good book, get it. show less
Burnard writes well, and the subject matter is interesting enough to keep the reader's attention, though he repeats himself a bit too much. The parts about Thistlewood's intellectual and gentlemanly pursuits was very interesting to me. A good book, get it. show less
Invaluable for placing Jamaica and the British Caribbean within the context of the British colonial system and the campaign against slavery.
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- Members
- 254
- Popularity
- #90,186
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 36