African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and non-Herbal Treatments by Herbert C. Covey
African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and non-Herbal Treatments by Herbert C. Covey
English | September 9, 2008 | ISBN: 0739116452 | 217 Pages | PDF | 0,6 MB
English | September 9, 2008 | ISBN: 0739116452 | 217 Pages | PDF | 0,6 MB
African-American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African-American slaves medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Drawing upon ex-slave interviews conducted during the 1930s and 1940s by the Works Project Administration (WPA), Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal, plant, and non-plant remedies used by African-American folk practitioners during slavery.