Thomas Farr Capers Papers
Thomas Farr Capers Papers

Author: Thomas Farr Capers

Publisher:

Published: 1868

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Papers, 1868-1869, consist of letters written from Charleston, South Carolina by Thomas Farr Capers (1801-1870) to Miss Martha McCall and Mrs. Sarah Matthews regarding the settlement of the estate of their brother, Joseph P. McCall, and other business matters.

Working Cures
Working Cures

Author: Sharla M. Fett

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780807853788

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Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South
Science, Race, and Religion in the American South

Author: Lester D. Stephens

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780807825181

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In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only three other cities in the United States_Philadelphia, Boston, and New York_exceeded Charleston in natural