Slavery and Smallpox Inoculation

The African Atlantic history of smallpox inoculation is a rich, yet oft-overlooked story. This lecture contextualizes the more familiar history of Onesimus and Cotton Mather in early eighteenth-century Boston within the broader history of Africans performing smallpox inoculations in West Africa, Jamaica, and Saint Domingue (Haiti) in the Revolutionary Era of the late eighteenth century.
With Elise A. Mitchell who is a historian of the early modern Black Atlantic and currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History Department at Princeton University. Broadly, her work examines the social and cultural histories of slavery, the body, medicine and healing, disease, race, and gender in the early modern Atlantic World.
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[@anthonyencarnacion7203]

I'm glad college's are back.. to be higher learning center's.. espousing pontificating, hinting at, using the anecdotal historical record of those with experience to teach and help the uneducated/ those with an opinion.. introducing those with an opinion to those with experience.. and being polite about it.. cudoes..! Bravo..! Your thinking your way out of the Civil War.. I am soooooo proud of you..

[@anthonyencarnacion7203]

Wow.. bold assertion..

[@mbotentoto5162]

Which assertion?