Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Gender and American Culture)

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2002
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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.

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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.

$49.19

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 31 May 2002
ISBN 10: 080785378X
ISBN 13: 9780807853788

Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Gender and American Culture)

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$49.19

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$49.19

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