The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic Children's Science & Nature Books and Everyone Feels Anxious Sometimes

and Everyone Feels Anxious Sometimes

The kind of kid who listens to his teachers

He’s quickly taken in by the school’s outcasts: the scholarship kids

Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod

The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic Children's Science & Nature Books and Everyone Feels Anxious SometimesThe Conjuring of America tells the epic story of conjure women, who, through a mix of spiritual beliefs, herbal rituals, and therapeutic remedies gave rise to the rich tapestry of American culture we see today. Feminist philosopher, Lindsey Stewart, tells the stories of Negro Mammies of slavery; the Voodoo Queens and Blues Women of Reconstruction; and the Granny Midwives and textile weavers of the Jim Crow era. These women, in secrecy and subterfuge,