Working Cures
Subtitle: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780807827093
Subjects: Complementary Medicine; History of medicine; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; Sociology; Plantation life; Public Health (Specific Aspects); Women's Studies - General; Social Science; History: American; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; History; Slavery; Medical / History; Healing; Southern States; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Health and hygiene; Slaves
First sentence: "The being of slavery, its soul and body, lives and moves in the chattel principle," wrote Presbyterian minister James W. C. Pennington in 1849.