TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stewart,Lindsey
TI  - The conjuring of America: mojos, mermaids, medicine, and 400 years of Black women's magic 
SN  - 9781538769508
AV  - BF1622.A34 S74 2025
U1  - 133.4/3/08996073 23/eng/20250721
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Legacy Lit
KW  - African American magic
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Magic
KW  - Herbs
KW  - Therapeutic use
KW  - African American women healers
KW  - African American women social reformers
KW  - Women, Black
KW  - Enslaved women
KW  - African American inventors
KW  - New products
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-335) and index
N2  - "Emerging first on plantations in the American South, enslaved conjure women used their magic to treat illnesses. These women combined their ancestral spiritual beliefs from West Africa with local herbal rituals and therapeutic remedies to create conjure, forging a secret well of health and power hidden to their oppressors and many of the modern-day staples we still enjoy. ... Black feminist philosopher Lindsey Stewart exposes this vital contour of American history. In the face of slavery, Negro mammies fashioned a legacy of magic that begat herbal experts, fearsome water bearers, and powerful mojos--roles and traditions that for centuries have been passed down to respond to Black struggles in real time. And when Jim Crow was born, Granny Midwives and textile weavers leveled their techniques to protect our civil and reproductive rights, while Candy Ladies fed a generation of freedom crusaders. ... Above all, The Conjuring of America is a love letter to the magic Black women used to sow messages of rebellion, freedom, and hope"--
ER  -