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[quote=Anonymous]Great thread, OP. I wish we could name and recognize the blue collar workers/unschooled black Americans who, literally, built this country. So many untold, unrecognized contributions and achievements. My contribution to this thread is Onesimus, an African man sold to the infamous Cotton Mather. At the time, Boston was experiencing yet another smallpox outbreak. Onesimus described how he had been vaccinated against smallpox IN AFRICA! Cotton Mather then work with a Boston physician, despite huge opposition, on testing smallpox inoculation - including inoculating a person enslaved by the doctor who could not have given consent. The inoculations were successful. https://www.history.com/news/smallpox-vaccine-onesimus-slave-cotton-mather https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1758062/pdf/v013p00082.pdf[/quote]
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