Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9628524 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn Roberts (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 283-305 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007680523000326 |
| OpenAlex | W4387028421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
The archival record of the transatlantic slave trade poses a methodological challenge to researchers who wish to center the lives of enslaved people in their scholarship. In more recent years, such archival scrutiny has evolved into its own vibrant field of inquiry concerning the politics of the archive. This article contributes to this burgeoning field by studying the pharmaceutical dimensions of the British slave trade and examining the underexplored relationship between captivity and drugs that articulated across the Atlantic world. By performing three different readings of a slave ship drug invoice—as a textual artifact, epistemic argument, and narrative of loss—I argue that the drug invoice stimulates new illness narratives of captive Africans in the historiography of the British slave trade
Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Field (mathematics · Historiography · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Scholarship · Scrutiny · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Medicine
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |