Working Cures

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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.

Fett shows how enslaved men and women drew on African precedents to develop a view of health and healing that was distinctly at odds with slaveholders'' property concerns. While white slave...
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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.

Fett shows how enslaved men and women drew on African precedents to develop a view of health and healing that was distinctly at odds with slaveholders'' property concerns. While white slave...
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  • Formats: pdf
  • ISBN: 9780807898925
  • Publication Date: 9 Nov 2000
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM