TIPHC Newsletter, Mar. 15-21, 2020
How an African Slave in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox. Image: A Boston advertisement for a cargo of about 250 slaves recently arrived from Africa circa 1700, particularly stressing that the slaves are free of smallpox, having been quarantined on their [...]