Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, preachers and quacks alike. She shows how families passed down cures a

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Gentlemen Merchants preserves the correspondence between members of two wealthy slaveholding merchant families, the Gourdins and the Youngs in nineteenth-centur