Working Cures

Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations

• Author(s): Sharla M. Fett,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 290
• ISBN_10: 0807827096
  ISBN_13: 9780807827093
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies , Medical / History , Social Science / Women's Studies , Social Science / Slavery ,

Description:... 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 women dr