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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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002. |
| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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