Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
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Londa Schiebinger., & Londa Schiebinger|AUTHOR. (2017). Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . Stanford University Press.

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