Sharla M. Fett
Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Gender and American Culture)
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 drew on African precedents to develop a view of h...
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