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For one thing, there are accounts of Europeans deliberately exposing the natives to diseases. It wasn't just a natural unfortunate occurance.
by TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
For one thing, there are accounts of Europeans deliberately exposing the natives to diseases. It wasn't just a natural unfortunate occurance.
- nemo 7y agoThere are plural accounts, but there is only a single documented case historians have evidence for of the British at Fort Pitt deliberately using infected items from their infirmary.
- quindecagon 7y agoI wonder how they thought of it. I don't think germ theory was common knowledge at the time.