Working Cures
Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
By Sharla Fett
(University of North Carolina Press, Hardcover, 9780807827093, 304pp.)
Publication Date: May 2002
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: History, Slavery, Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
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Description
Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South.
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