Evaluate the ways in which enslaved African Americans approached health and healing
To write this essay, please use the reading from Sharla Fett’s Working Cures: Healing Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. A successful essay will use evidence from the book to support your ideas and arguments. (Pages 15-110) In a 3 page essay evaluate the ways in which enslaved African Americans approached health and healing. In what ways did enslaved African American views differ from that of slaveholding men and women? To what extent did their approaches to health and healing serve as a form of resistance to physical and psychological dehumanization?

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