19th century Caribbean elite
19th century Caribbean slavery
19th century transatlantic history
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American-born British colonists
Atlantic slave trade legacy
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biography of a slaveholder
biography of Caribbean slave owner
Black history and slavery
British colonial Caribbean
British colonial politics
British Empire biography
British Empire in the Caribbean
British politicians and slavery
British slavery in Trinidad
Caribbean history biography
Caribbean slave society
Caribbean studies
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colonial power and identity
colonial Trinidad history
colonial wealth and race
culture of slaveholding elites
effects of emancipation
elite colonial families
emancipation era Trinidad
English elites in the Caribbean
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European-Caribbean connections
founding father of Trinidad
from slavery to freedom
historical biography Trinidad
history of slave ownership
imperialism and exploitation
influential Caribbean slaveholders
legacy of colonialism
persistent legacies of slavery
planter class biography
political history of slavery
post-emancipation Trinidad
postcolonial Caribbean analysis
race and empire
race and power in colonial era
racial hierarchy in Trinidad
slave owners in Trinidad
slavery and colonialism
slavery in the British West Indies
social history of Trinidad
transatlantic slaveholder
transition from slavery to freedom
transnational plantation economy
Trinidad colonial society
Trinidad slavery history
wealth from slavery
white supremacy in Caribbean
Product details
- ISBN 9781625343703
- Weight: 535g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2018
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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William Hardin Burnley (1780-1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent of the British Empire. A central figure among elite and moneyed transnational slave owners, Burnley moved easily through the Atlantic world of the Caribbean, the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and counted among his friends Alexis de Tocqueville, British politician Joseph Hume, and prime minister William Gladstone.
In this first full-length biography of Burnley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe chronicles the life of Trinidad's ""founding father"" and sketches the social and cultural milieu in which he lived. Reexamining the decades of transition from slavery to freedom through the lens of Burnley's life, The Slave Master of Trinidad demonstrates that the legacies of slavery persisted in the new post-emancipation society.
In this first full-length biography of Burnley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe chronicles the life of Trinidad's ""founding father"" and sketches the social and cultural milieu in which he lived. Reexamining the decades of transition from slavery to freedom through the lens of Burnley's life, The Slave Master of Trinidad demonstrates that the legacies of slavery persisted in the new post-emancipation society.
Selwyn R. Cudjoe is professor of Africana studies at Wellesley College and author of V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading.
