[PDF.42am] Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations

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

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 | #1884185 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2002-05-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .97 x6.08 x9.88l,1.37 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| What a wonderful work!|By nbrhdBOOGIEman|Fett's work is clearly deeply rooted in the archives as she gives us a nuanced depiction of health and well being on 19th century plantations in the VA tidewater and SC low country. While health and well being were clearly a means to an economic end for the slave holder, Fett also shows how healing, as a form of African cultural retentio|From Library Journal|In this work, which is based on her 1995 Rutgers University dissertation, Fett assesses slave health and medical care in the U.S. South. She portrays slave society as a culture that developed its own healing methods while subject to abuse an

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 ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations   |  Sharla M. Fett.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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