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

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

Sharla Fett

304 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history 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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