The Department of History and Archaeology (DOHA), UWI Mona, expresses its deep regret on learning of the passing of Prof Trevor Burnard.
 
Trevor joined the DOHA in 1987 while finalizing his PhD at Johns Hopkins University and spent two years in the Department. He would become one of the most significant writers of early American, imperial, world and Atlantic History, and in particular on plantation societies in the Caribbean. Some of his most significant works focused specifically on the history of Jamaica including: Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (with John Garrigus, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), Planters, Merchants and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
 
He is fondly remembered as a good and sociable colleague, for his warmth and generosity, and for his ‘special’ driving in Kingston’s morning traffic and frequent trips with colleagues to the Spanish Town archives – all done in his famed red jalopy.
 
Condolences to his friends and family.