Working cures : healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations /
The author presents 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 exploring how these practices invoked conflicts between the slave doctors and the whites...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2002
Chapel Hill : ©2002 Chapel Hill : c2002 |
| Series: | Gender & American culture
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