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Urvashi Chakravarty

is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto and works on early modern English literature, critical race studies, queer studies, and the history of slavery. She was a Mellon Long-Term Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library for 2017-2018, and her first book, Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England (Penn Press, 2022), explores the ideologies of Atlantic slavery in early modern England.
Bound to Serve: Apprenticeship Indentures at the Folger
Indenture of apprenticeship for John Holden
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Bound to Serve: Apprenticeship Indentures at the Folger

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A guest post by Dr. Urvashi Chakravarty In 1616, the apprentice Robert Dering received the following letter from his master Thomas Style. Letter from Thomas Style to Robert Dering Dering was bound overseas with one Mr. Culpepper, and in his…