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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fett, Sharla M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Series:Gender & American culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo