Working cures
healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations
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Author
Publication
2002 - University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
72,500 words, Guess
Page Count
290 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100807827096
- ISBN-10080785378X
- ISBN-139780807827093
- ISBN-139780807853788
- Goodreads1255825
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- Library of Congress Control Number2001057016
- OCLC Control Number48619308
- Better World Books9780807853788
- Better World Books9780807827093
- Open LibraryOL15542481M
Classifications
- LCCRA448.5.N4 F48 2002
- LCC2001057016 [RA]
Alternate Titles
- Healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations
Description
"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.". "Felt 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 slave-owners narrowly defined slave health in terms of "soundness" for labor, slaves embraced a relational concept 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 objectification of black health.". "Based on innovative readings of slave narratives, household remedy books, overseer letters, plantation records, and antebellum medical journals, Working Cures charts the contentious realm of plantation medical encounters. Fett's compelling analysis of these struggles illuminates the vital connection drawn by enslaved African Americans between personal health and collective freedom."--BOOK JACKET.
Description
"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.". "Felt 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 slave-owners narrowly defined slave health in terms of "soundness" for labor, slaves embraced a relational concept 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 objectification of black health.". "Based on innovative readings of slave narratives, household remedy books, overseer letters, plantation records, and antebellum medical journals, Working Cures charts the contentious realm of plantation medical encounters. Fett's compelling analysis of these struggles illuminates the vital connection drawn by enslaved African Americans between personal health and collective freedom."--BOOK JACKET.
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Series Statement
- Gender and American culture
- Gender & American culture
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