Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations

Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
ISBN-10
080785378X
ISBN-13
9780807853788
Category
Medical
Pages
310
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Univ of North Carolina Press
Author
Sharla M. Fett

Description

Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.

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