Working cures: healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations
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1. Verfasser: Fett, Sharla M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2002
Schriftenreihe:Gender & American culture
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Beschreibung:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index
I: Visions of health -- Soundness -- Spirit and power -- Sacred plants -- Conjuring community -- II: Areas of conflict -- Doctoring women -- Danger and distrust -- Fooling the master
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 290 pages)
ISBN:0807898929
9780807827093
9780807898925

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