William Hardin Burnley
William Hardin Burnley (21 April 1780 – 29 December 1850)[1] was an American-born British-Trinidadian planter who was the largest slave-owner in Trinidad in the nineteenth century.[2][3][1][4]
Born in New York City, he was the son of Hardin Burnley (1741–1823) and his wife, Catherine, née Maitland (1752/3–1827). The family moved to London in 1786, and Burnley attended Harrow School in 1793. He visited Trinidad in 1793, and eventually settled on the island.[1]
Selected publications
- Observations on the present condition of the island of Trinidad, and the actual state of the experiment of negro emancipation, 1842.
See also
- Hardin Burnley
References
- ^ a b c Selwyn R. Cudjoe, "Burnley, William Hardin", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 6 October 2016.
- ^ "'The Slave Master of Trinidad': William Hardin Burnley", UCL.
- ^ "William Hardin Burnley", Legacies of British Slave-ownership, UCL.
- ^ The Slave Master of Trinidad, University of Massachusetts Press.
Further reading
- Cudjoe, Selwyn R. (2018), The Slave Master of Trinidad. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-62534-370-3
External links
- Selwyn R. Cudjoe, "William Hardin Burnley and Caribbean slavery" (audio), 10 October 2013. The National Archives.
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