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African-American Slave Medicine

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.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 254 pages

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