Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations by Sharla M. Fett

Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations

Gender and American Culture

Sharla M. Fett

304 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South. Fett shows how enslaved men and wom...

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