Working Cures Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations

Name: Working Cures Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
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ISBN: 9780807853788

ISBN-10: 080785378X

ISBN-13: 9780807853788

Edition: 2002

Authors: Sharla M. Fett

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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 health and healing that was distinctly at odds with slaveholders' property concerns. While white slaveowners narrowly defined slave health in terms of "soundness" for labor, slaves embraced a relational view of health that was intimately tied to religion and community. African American healing practices thus not only restored the body but also provided a formidable weapon against white…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/6/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.254



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Visions of Health



Soundness



Spirit and Power



Sacred Plants



Conjuring Community



Arenas of Conflict



Doctoring Women



Danger and Distrust



Fooling the Master


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index