African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments

African American Slave Medicine

Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments

2007 • 222 pages

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 remedies used by African American folk practitioners during slavery.


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