Fictions of Consent

Chakravarty, Urvashi

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“…Apprenticeships and indentures offered similar pitfalls for the person selling their labor. 72 Jepson's shop thus featured a range of dependent and precarious labor -embodied by Malony, the unnamed assistant, and others Jepson enslaved -that reflects the idea of property in persons already integrated into colonial medical practice and medicinal production.…”

Section: The Bostonmentioning

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Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy

Dorner

2023

Hist Sci

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By recovering the dependent, often enslaved, laborers who helped to make European medicines commercially available in the New England colonies, this article offers a new history of early American pharmaceutical knowledge and production. It does so by considering the life and labor of an unnamed, enslaved assistant who was said to make tinctures, elixirs, and other common remedies in a 1758 letter between two business partners, Silvester Gardiner, a successful surgeon and apothecary in Boston, Massachusetts, and William Jepson, his former apprentice, in Hartford, Connecticut. Using strategies from slavery and critical archive studies, as well as from social history and the history of medicine, this article emphasizes the materiality and embodiment of pharmaceutical production and follows fragmentary evidence beyond the business archive to reverse the systemic erasure of enslaved and indentured laborers from the records of eighteenth-century manufacturers of medicines. The medicine trades of men like Gardiner and Jepson appear more reliant upon dependent laborers – named and unnamed – who not only performed rote tasks but brought their experience and judgment to their labors as well. Their contributions could be obviously medical (preparing remedies) or more ambiguous (stoking fires, shipping goods), but these actions together constituted early modern pharmacy, enabled the expansion of the transatlantic medicine trade, and laid the foundations for the more self-sufficient and industrialized pharmacy that developed in the nineteenth century. Centering the skill and knowledge among subordinated laborers in one facet of an emergent transatlantic care economy affirms the entanglement of slavery and science and underscores the necessity of asking new questions of old sources.

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Section: The Bostonmentioning

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Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy

Dorner

2023

Hist Sci

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The Politics of Hunting: An Aristotelian Reading of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti 67

Addis

2024

Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

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Pastoral Care through Letters in the British Atlantic

Searle

2023

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Choosing the right words is itself an act of caregiving. Centring on correspondence archives allows pastoral letters to be analysed as a distinct literary genre that contributed in complex ways to early modern practices of caregiving, negotiating political oppression, geographical isolation, and colonial experimentation. Forms of care were solicited, given, and received through the material technology of the letter as a literary artefact. The exchange of letters created new bureaucratic and pastoral structures and entanglements between Protestant believers and others across the British Atlantic and reveals the contentious balance between care and cure within early modern communities. Pastoral care involves exercising power: epistolary exchanges sustain, exploit, shape, and distort the spiritual and material wellbeing of individuals and communities in a landscape fissured by religious division, enslavement, and imperial expansion.

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Fictions of Consent

Cited by 18 publications

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Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy

Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy

The Politics of Hunting: An Aristotelian Reading of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti 67

Pastoral Care through Letters in the British Atlantic

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