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Power, Slavery, and Culture in the Trans-Atlantic World:
A Conference in Memory of Trevor Burnard
Wolfson Conference Suite, IHR, Senate House,
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HUL
30 June and 1 July 2025
This conference is to celebrate the life and work of Trevor Burnard, who died on 19 July 2024. Speakers are friends and colleagues of Trevor and many of his family and close friends will be attending.
If you would like to register please contact Phil Withington (p.withington@sheffield.ac.uk) and Mark Peterson (mark.a.peterson@yale.edu).
The conference has been organized with the generous sponsorship and support of a range of institutions, including the Institute of Historical Research, the Economic History Society, the Bibliography of British and Irish History, The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Wilberforce Institute, the GIS Sociabilités, the University of Sheffield and the University of Warwick.
DAY ONE MONDAY 30TH JUNE 2025
Introductions: 9am
Claire Langhamer
Mark Peterson & Phil Withington
Panel 1: 9:10-10:40 Plantations and Economies
Phil Withington, Chair
Maxine Berg, ‘Plantations and the Political Economy of the Mercantile System’
Pierre Gervais, ‘Planters, Merchants, Capitalists’
Peter Mancall, ‘Agricultural Practice in the Americas and Enslavement’
Nuala Zahedieh, ‘Early English Jamaica’
Break
Panel 2: 11:00-12:30 Atlantic Slave Trade
Mark Peterson, Chair
Stephen Mullen, ‘Credit, Kingston Merchants and the Atlantic Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century Revisited’
Sophie White, ‘His Master’s Grace’: Extrajudicial Violence, Punishment, and Mercy in Atlantic Slave Societies’
Nicholas Radburn, ‘El Dorado or ‘Fairy Gold:’ The Profits of the South Sea Company’s Slave Trading, c.1714-1739’
Giorgio Riello, ‘The Diamond-Shaped Trade and Role of the Atlantic in the Eighteenth Century’
Lunch: 12:30-1:30
Panel 3: 1:30-2:40 Slavery, Revolution, and Empire
Ben Marsh, Chair
Eric Hinderaker, ‘Age of Imperial Fracture – Legacies of Revolution’
Wim Klooster, ‘Trans-Atlantic Popular Monarchism among Serfs and Slaves’
Crister Petley, 'Jamaican Slaveholders and the Age of Revolution'
Break
Panel 4: 3:00-4:15 The Empire Beyond the Atlantic
Diana Paton, Chair
Alison Games, ‘Made by Women: The East India Company's First Fifty Years’.
Phil Stern, ‘Britain in the Wider World: The Early Eighteenth Century’
Alan Lester, ‘Colonial Humanitarians’
Break
Panel 5: 4:30-5.40 Trevor’s Influence on French/Atlantic History
Wim Klooster, Chair
Susanne Lachenicht, ‘The Future of Atlantic History from the Perspective of the Summer Academy of Atlantic History (2009 ff.)’
Allan Potofsky, ‘Property and Power: A Comparative study of planters as urban elites in Paris and London’
François-Joseph Ruggiu, Centre Roland Mousnier, Sorbonne University, CNRS, ‘Trevor Burnard and the French imperial history’
RECEPTION: 5.50 – 7.50
DAY TWO TUESDAY 1ST JULY 2025
Panel 6: 9.15-10:30 Britain and Slavery
Mark Knights, Chair
Michael Bennett, ‘Metropolitan Capital, the Bank of England, and Plantation Development in the Ceded Islands, 1763-90’
Glenn Burgess, ‘Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: Ethics and History’
Emma Hart, ‘Tobias Smollett's Vision of Empire and the 'Problem' of Slavery’
Break
Panel 7: 10:50-12:20 American Revolution
Peterson, Chair
Eliga Gould, ‘Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in Britain, Ireland, and America, 1778-1783’
Simon Middleton, ‘The history of money in James Franklin Jameson's, The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement’
Andrew O’Shaughnessy, ‘An Imperial History of the American Revolution’
Patrick Griffin, ‘Charles Cornwallis, Revolution, and Empire’
Lunch: 12:20-1:30
Panel 8: 1:30-3:00 19th Century Slavery and Emancipation
Deirdre Coleman, Chair
David Brown, British Antislavery and American Civil War
John Coffey, ‘‘Wild Dreams and Bitter Realities in British South America’: The Demerara Slave Revolt, 1823'
Gad Heuman, ‘The Apprenticeship System in the Caribbean: The World of the Planters’
John Oldfield, '1833 and beyond: commemoration, Ritual and British Transatlantic Slavery'
Break
Panel 9: 3:20-4:50 Trevor as Historian
Anne Gerritsen, Chair
Paul Betts, Trevor as Historian
Saul Dubow, Trevor as Historian
Nick Evans, Trevor & The Wilberforce Institute
Simon Newman, Trevor and Thistlewood
Closing Remarks, 4:50-5:00
Dinner 7pm
Tas Bloomsbury (for those registered for dinner only)
22 Bloomsbury Street
London WC1B 3QJ
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