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Working cures : healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations

Sharla M. Fett (Author)
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

Print Book, English, 2002
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2002