Wikipedia @lemmy.world dantheclamman @lemmy.world 3w ago

Onesimus (enslaved man who brought inoculation to the Americas)

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History @lemmy.world frightful_hobgoblin @lemmy.ml 6d ago

Onesimus was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of smallpox in Boston by teaching the variolation method of inoculation

en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Onesimus_(Bostonian)