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Working cures : healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations Sharla M. Fett
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks USouth RA 448.5 .N4 F48 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fett, Sharla M.
- Series:
- Gender & American culture
- Gender and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Healing--Southern States--History.
- Healing.
- Enslaved persons--Health and hygiene--Southern States--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Plantation life--Southern States--History.
- Plantation life.
- Enslaved persons--Medical care--Southern States--History.
- Health and race--Southern States--History.
- Health and race.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions.
- Southern States--Social conditions.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 290 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
- Contents:
- pt. I: Visions of health
- Soundness
- Spirit and power
- Sacred plants
- Conjuring community
- pt. II: Areas of conflict
- Doctoring women
- Danger and distrust
- Fooling the master.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-279) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP credit line -- Butler Papers (Coll. # 1447).
- ISBN:
- 0807827096 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080785378X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 48619308
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