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Language: en
Pages: 279
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-14 - Publisher: OUP USA
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Language: en
Pages: 291
Pages: 291
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In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes,
Language: en
Pages: 310
Pages: 310
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resist
Language: en
Pages: 250
Pages: 250
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