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

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Author / Creator:	Fett, Sharla M.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Gender and American culture Gender & American culture.
Subject:	Healing -- Southern States -- History. Slaves -- Health and hygiene -- Southern States -- History. Plantation life -- Southern States -- History. Slaves -- Medical care -- Southern States -- History. Health and race -- Southern States -- History. Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions. African Americans -- history. History, 19th Century. Medicine, Traditional -- history. Healing. Health and race. Plantation life. Slaves -- Health and hygiene. Slaves -- Medical care. Slaves -- Social conditions. Social conditions Southern States -- Social conditions. Southeastern United States. Southern States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11281726

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ISBN:	9780807898925 0807898929 0807827096 080785378X 9780807827093 9780807853788
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Fett, Sharla M. Working cures. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002 9780807827093

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