African American Slave Medicine Herbal and

iAfrican American Slave Medicinei offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal, plant, and non-plant remedies used by African American folk practitioners during slavery.

Herbert C. Covey is an instructor in the College of Continuing Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Introduction : medical care and slaves	p. 1
White medical care of slaves	p. 19
Slave folk practitioners	p. 41
Conjuring and hoodoo	p. 55
Slave herbal and plant treatments	p. 73
Enslaved African American non-herbal treatments and Materia Medica	p. 125
Closing observations	p. 147
Plant and herb treatments	p. 151
Unknown plant / herbal treatments	p. 181
Non-plant or herbal treatments	p. 183
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African American Slave Medicine Herbal and non-Herbal Treatments

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