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Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations - Gender and American Culture Sharla M. Fett New edition
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Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations - Gender and American Culture
Sharla M. Fett
An exploration of 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 between the slave doctors and the whites who attempted to supervise their work.
352 pages, 13 illustrations, 1 map, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 6, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807853788 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 157 × 22 mm · 426 g |
| Language | English |
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