Many IJMH readers will have learned of the untimely death of Trevor Burnard, Director of the Wilberforce Institute of the Study of Slavery and Emancipation and Professor of History at the University of Hull, last July. The wide awareness of Professor Burnard’s passing in and of itself reflects his prolific scholarship as well as the profound influence of this remarkably generous colleague. A preeminent historian of early modern trafficking of enslaved Africans and of enslavement in Anglo-America, especially the British West Indies, as well as a leading authority on British colonization, he occupied the vanguard in effecting a shift in understanding that has made the histories of European overseas empire and of enslavement—and the violence, especially sexual, that was central to enslavement—inseparable.

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