William Hardin Burnley (21 April 1780 – 29 December 1850)Selwyn R. Cudjoe, "Burnley, William Hardin", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 6 October 2016. was an American-born British-Trinidadian planter who was the largest slave-owner in Trinidad in the nineteenth century."'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.

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.

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

Further reading Cudjoe, Selwyn R. (2018), The Slave Master of Trinidad. University of Massachusetts Press.

External links Selwyn R. Cudjoe, "William Hardin Burnley and Caribbean slavery" (audio), 10 October 2013. The National Archives.