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A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky (review)

the process of many scholars’ monographs, but Schiebinger calls attention to it in Secret Cures of Slaves with frequent sequences of questions and sections that end on a question and offer subsequent discussions as possible solutions. We don’t always encounter such a questiondriven discourse in a field where statements and certainty rather than exploration and experimentation are favored in the writing. We can see a similar (though less exploratory) approach in her previous study, Plants and Empire, wherein Schiebinger boldly explored agnotology, the study of ignorances, which forces the historian into unstable terrain, as she explained in that text. In many ways, I see Plants and Empire as the origin story for Secret Cures of Slaves, but we can also locate the beginnings of her notion of the Atlantic world medical complex and her engagement with Philip Curtin and AndreasHolger Maehle in Colonial Botany (U of Pennsylvania P, 2007), the collection of essays Schiebinger edited with Claudia Swan. Thus these foundational texts enable the experimentation I see Schiebinger embrace in Secret Cures of Slaves. I suggest reading Secret Cures of Slaves as a historian’s version of a lab report, with Schiebinger as the scientist conducting experiments with research she has amassed throughout her career. This is not to suggest we see Schiebinger in the role of the exploitative experimenter, for Secret Cures of Slaves includes examples of all kinds of people who experiment upon themselves or others to help, explain, solve, and heal. And seeing Secret Cures of Slaves in this light makes me appreciate the work as an effort to accomplish the same objectives—to help, explain, solve, and even heal— through history.