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African-American Slave Medicine

by Herbert C. Covey · March 28, 2007

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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. Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal, plant, and non-plant.

Slaves, united statesTraditional medicineHerbs, therapeutic useAfrican americans, medical careAfrican americans, historyUnited states, history, 19th centuryMateria medica, vegetableSocial problemsMedicine, united statesHistory, modern, 19th centurySlavesMedicine