Black people, let's make 2010 a year of fitness and good health
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We all need to take better care of our physical bodies. I sometimes think about the healthcare that was available for our people in the past. how we had to depend on other forms of remedies when the doctors didn't have the cure.
In the early 1930s a collection of folkloric material was gathered by a White Reverend name Harry Middleton Hyatt. He first started gathering information for his books in the southern states. Mr. Hyatt paid Black informants $10 each for any information they could give him about the methods that were used by the local Spiritualists, root workers, and fortune tellers. During his interview with informants he would requested the location or whereabouts of the spiritualist that had performed the healing on the client. He then had interviews with several spiritualist and root workers because $10 dollars was considered to be a lot of money during the 1930’s.
The books written by Reverend Hyatt are out of print now, probably because of the use of the word negro throughout his descriptions. I’m sure that he didn’t intend for his book to be sold to Blacks anyway. In 1999, I saw the collection of his books being sold on EBay for $6,000.00
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That sounds like something I can do Brother George!