African-American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-herbal Treatments

by HerbertC.Covey (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $163.68

  African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal, plant, and non-plant remedies used by African American folk practitioners during slavery.