Working cures : healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations

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Main Author: Fett, Sharla M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
Series:Gender & American culture
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Table of 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.