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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fett, Sharla M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Colección:Gender & American culture.
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