In the first half of the 19th century, the safeguarding of the health of the enslaved workers became a central concern for plantation owners and colonial admini

Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resist

Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks

This study re-evaluates the field known as Negro/Slave Medicine, which has traditionally focused on the efforts of slaveowners to provide medical care for their

CONTENTS: Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble “Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World,” Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D