Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Visions of health. Soundness ; Spirit and power ; Sacred plants ; Conjuring community -- Areas of conflict. Doctoring women ; Danger and distrust ; Fooling the master.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 who attempted to supervise their work.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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Title
Working cures.
International Standard Book Number
9780807827093
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Healing-- Southern States-- History.
Health and race-- Southern States-- History.
Plantation life-- Southern States-- History.
Slaves-- Health and hygiene-- Southern States-- History.
Slaves-- Medical care-- Southern States-- History.
Slaves-- Southern States-- Social conditions.
African Americans-- history.
African Americans-- history.
African Americans-- Southeastern United States-- history.
African Americans-- Southeastern United States-- History.
History, 19th Century-- Southeastern United States.
History, 19th Century-- Southeastern United States.
History, 19th Century.
History, 19th Century.
Medicine, Traditional-- history.
Medicine, Traditional-- history.
Medicine, Traditional-- Southeastern United States-- history.
Medicine, Traditional-- Southeastern United States-- History.