Working Cures
Subtitle: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
Series: Gender and American Culture
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807853788
Subjects: Complementary Medicine; History of medicine; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; Southern States; Plantation life; Health and hygiene; Social Science; Sociology; History: American; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; USA; Slavery; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Medical / History; Healing; Women's Studies - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; History; 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.