Title Working cures : healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations / Sharla M. Fett

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations Series Gender and American culture Gender & American culture. Contents Visions of health. Soundness ; Spirit and power ; Sacred plants ; Conjuring community -- Areas of conflict. Doctoring women ; Danger and distrust ; Fooling the master Summary 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 who attempted to supervise their work Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index Notes 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Healing -- Southern States -- History Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene -- Southern States -- History Plantation life -- Southern States -- History Enslaved persons -- Medical care -- Southern States -- History Health and race -- Southern States -- History Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions Black or African American -- history History, 19th Century Medicine, Traditional -- history HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues. MEDICAL -- Public Health. MEDICAL -- Health Policy. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery. Healing Health and race Plantation life Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene Enslaved persons -- Medical care Enslaved persons -- Social conditions Social conditions Medizinische Versorgung Sklave Plantage Gesundheitsvorsorge Slaven (arbeid) Plantages. Gezondheid. Volksgeneeskunde. Sekseverschillen. 15.85 history of America. SUBJECT Southern States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125661 Southeastern United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015144 Subject Southern States USA -- Südstaaten Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780807898925 0807898929 9798890869807

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