Working Cures

Working Cures
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 080785378X
ISBN-13 : 9780807853788
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Book Synopsis Working Cures by : Sharla M. Fett

Download or read book Working Cures written by Sharla M. Fett and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.


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