| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Gender and American culture
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Gender & American culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index. |
| Contents |
Visions of health. Soundness ; Spirit and power ; Sacred plants ; Conjuring community -- Areas of conflict. Doctoring women ; Danger and distrust ; Fooling the master. |
| Summary |
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 invoked conflicts between the slave doctors and the whites who attempted to supervise their work. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Healing -- Southern States -- History.
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Healing. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
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Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene -- Southern States -- History.
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Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene. |
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Enslaved persons. |
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Plantation life -- Southern States -- History.
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Plantation life. |
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Enslaved persons -- Medical care -- Southern States -- History.
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Enslaved persons -- Medical care. |
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Health and race -- Southern States -- History.
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Health and race. |
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Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Southern States -- Social conditions.
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Black or African American -- history. |
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History, 19th Century. |
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Medicine, Traditional -- history. |
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Southeastern United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fett, Sharla M. Working cures. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002 9780807827093 (DLC) 2001057016 (OCoLC)48619308 |
| ISBN |
9780807898925 (electronic book) |
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0807898929 (electronic book) |
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0807827096 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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080785378X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807827093 |
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9780807853788 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
