The slave master of Trinidad : William Hardin Burnley and the nineteenth-century Atlantic world /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cudjoe, Selwyn R. (Selwyn Reginald) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
Temas:
Burnley, William H. > (William Hardin)
Burnley, William Hardin, > 1780-1850.
1800-1899
Slaveholders > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad > Biography.
Slavery > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad > History > 19th century.
Propriétaires d'esclaves > Trinité-et-Tobago > Trinité (Île) > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
Slaveholders
Slavery
Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Burnley at Orange Grove
  • Burnley's emergence
  • Burnley's schooling
  • Burnley's entrance to Trinidad
  • The coming of Ralph Woodford
  • Opposition to emancipation from Tacarigua
  • Toward planter control of the colony
  • Life on the plantation
  • Burnley's ascendancy
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Brighter horizons
  • Monstrous unnatural results
  • Opinions on slavery and emancipation
  • The politics of compensation
  • The new society
  • Preparing for emancipation
  • Burnley's views on apprenticeship
  • Apprenticeship : making it work for him
  • The virtues of land possession
  • An artful enemy
  • Changing fortunes
  • Burnley's immigration initiatives
  • The road to prosperity
  • Burnley's changing racial rhetoric
  • A continuing quest for labor
  • Visiting family in Virginia
  • Burnley and the question of free labor
  • The evil of squatting
  • Policing the Negroes
  • Waging war against Africans
  • Domestic matters
  • Land occupation
  • The new order of things
  • The great railway debate
  • Toward modernity
  • The agony of despair
  • Burnley's callousness
  • The voice of the people
  • Burnley's declining significance
  • Living like a lord
  • The laborers' rebellion
  • Burnley confronted
  • Revolutionary ideas
  • A new consciousness
  • The island of Babel
  • Fading glory
  • Cessation
  • Resurgam.

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