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  • HEARING ENSLAVED VOICES
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    HEARING ENSLAVED VOICES
    SOPHIE WHITE / TREVOR BURNARD
    This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was permitted, and the meanings that can be attached to such narratives. The chapters ...

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  • BRITAIN IN THE WIDER WORLD
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    BRITAIN IN THE WIDER WORLD
    TREVOR BURNARD
    Britain in the Wider World traces the remarkable transformation of Britain between 1603 and 1800 as it developed into a world power. At the accession of James VI and I to the throne of England in 1603, the kingdoms of England/Wales, Scotland and Ireland were united only by having a monarch in common. They had little presence in the world and were fraught with violence. Two cent...

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  • CREOLE GENTLEMEN
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    CREOLE GENTLEMEN
    TREVOR BURNARD
    Examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland, Burnard traces the development of this elite from a hard-living, profit-driven merchant-planter class in the seventeenth century to a more genteel class of plantation owners in the eighteenth century. This study innovatively compares these men to their counterparts elsewhere in the British Empire, ...

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  • PLANTERS, MERCHANTS, AND SLAVES
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    PLANTERS, MERCHANTS, AND SLAVES
    TREVOR BURNARD
    As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because—to speak bluntly—i...

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