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

Gender and American Culture

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

Sharla M. Fett

304 pages paperback

2 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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