# Trevor Burnard

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King Charles III supports research into monarchy’s ties to slavery

King Charles III has said he will support new research into the British monarchy's historical connections with slavery. We talk to Trevor Burnard, director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull; and Niambi Hall-Campbell Dean, chair of the B…

Calling in the debt owed by slave-holding nations

A report co-authored by a UN judge has added to growing international calls for reparations to be paid by perpetrators of transatlantic slavery. The Brattle Group Report calculates 31 former slaveholding states including Britain, the US, France and Spain owe US$107.8 trillion, with the UK alone owi…

Abolition of The British Slave Trade

In the mid-17th Century, Britain dominated the Slave Trade, shipping over 3 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. Conditions on board slave ships were inhumane, and large numbers of enslaved men, women, and children died en-route. However, during the 18th and early 19th centuries, certain …

Whiskey Rebellion 262: Slow News Week

Frank and David discuss the Trump assassination attempt, the GOP convention, and Biden dropping out of the race. Last Drops Frank: RIP Trevor Burnard David: RIP Pete Carmichael

Episode 9: The Sugar

In the 1760s, Jamaica and the islands of the British Caribbean were the crown jewels of Britain's American Empire. And as King George III's ministers searched for solutions to a vexing imperial puzzle and moved to counter a pernicious threat in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War, they looked wes…

Creating the Caribbean: The Colonial West Indies -- pt. 2: The High Plantation Period, 1697-1791

We examine the complex and tumultuous history of the lands around the Caribbean basin, including the rise of the massive sugar-plantation colonies of Jamaica and Saint Domingue, which depended upon an enormous traffic in enslaved African workers, the emergence of distinctive creole languages and sp…

Episode 15: The Heavens Fall

The detainment of a West African-born enslaved Virginian named James Somerset in London leads to a court case decided by England's most powerful judge that challenges the foundations of slavery in the British Empire. Featuring: Christopher Brown, Trevor Burnard, Julie Flavell, and Chernoh Sesay, …

Republic and Empire: Andrew O’Shaughnessy on the global causes and consequences of the American Revolution

At the outbreak of the American Revolution, the British Empire stretched across nearly every corner of the globe. From India to the Caribbean, from Africa to Gibraltar to the Canadian provinces, Britain’s reach was vast. In 1776, the thirteen colonies that chose to rebel represented only half of th…

Episode 5 - American Revolution - Untold Stories Beyond the 13 Colonies

In this conversation with Dr. Andrew O’Shaughnessy of the University of Virginia, we discuss his new book, Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence, co-authored with Trevor Burnard. The discussion delves into the reasons behind the success of the American Revolution…