Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
by
Sharla M. Fett
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
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...