Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Saint Domingue: Life in the Torrid Zone
2. European Medicine in the Torrid Zone
3. Enslaved Healers on the Plantation
4. Enslaved Herbalists
5. Makandal and the Medical Care of Animals: The
Veterinarians
Who Inspired the Haitian Revolution
6. Magnetism in Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue: The
Case of
the Enslaved Magnetists and their Fight for Freedom
7. The Transformative Power of the Kaperlata
Conclusion: The Influence of the Enslaved Healers--
Yesterday,
Today, and Tomorrow
Notes
Bibliography
Index