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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2002.
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Series: | Gender & American culture.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |