Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing

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African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to continue to exist. It all started with the healing knowledge brought with the African captives at the slave ships and later merged with Native American, European and other healing traditions to develop into a full-fledged body of medicinal practices that has lasted in quite a lot of forms down to the present day.

Working the Roots: Over 400 Years Of Traditional African American Healing is the results of first-hand interviews, conversations, and apprenticeships conducted and experienced by creator Michele E. Lee over several years of living and studying in the rural South and in the West Coast regions of the USA. She combines a novelist’s keen ear for storytelling and dialogue and a healer’s understanding of folk medicine arts into a book that makes for both pleasant, interesting reading, and serves as a permanent household healing guide.

Divided between sections on interviews of healers and their stories and a comprehensive selection of traditional African American medicines, remedies, and the many common ailments they were known as upon to cure, Working The Roots is a valuable addition to African American history and American and African folk healing practices.

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