MEDICAL REVOLUTIONARIES: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue

MEDICAL REVOLUTIONARIES: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint DomingueMidwives, herbalists, mesmerists, and other healers among the slaves on the Caribbean island treated their fellow slaves, white residents, and non human animals with their own combination of Western, African, and Caribbean remedies. Weaver (American history and history of medicine, Susquehanna U.) describes how these men and women used their prestige and their networks of communication among the slave community to help instigate and lead the slave

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this book gives voice to ways in which our foreign policy has fallen short of multi-cultural democratic ideals and suggests corrective measures

The complex story of the rise and fall of the colored class in Jamaican politics is examined in this important contribution to the history of the Caribbean

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