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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
Student Collection
xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780807827093, 9780807853788, 0807827096, 080785378X
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I: Visions of health
Soundness
Spirit and power
Sacred plants
Conjuring community
II: Areas of conflict
Doctoring women
Danger and distrust
Fooling the master