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

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...

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