Author: Sharla M. Fett
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 080785378X
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. Download Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Gender and American Culture) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 objectification of black health. Enslaved women played a particularly impor Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. Working Cures medical books pdf for free. Enslaved women played a particularly impor
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 080785378X
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. Download Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Gender and American Culture) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 objectification of black health. Enslaved women played a particularly impor Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. Working Cures medical books pdf for free. Enslaved women played a particularly impor
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