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Working cures : healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0807898929
ISBN: 9780807898925
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Visions of health. Soundness ; Spirit and power ; Sacred plants ; Conjuring community -- Areas of conflict. Doctoring women ; Danger and distrust ; Fooling the master.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.