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Out of curiosity, why "the first white person"? Were there other races practicing vaccination? What's the relevance of 'white' here (genuinely curious, not tryi
by throwaway894345 5y ago
Out of curiosity, why "the first white person"? Were there other races practicing vaccination? What's the relevance of 'white' here (genuinely curious, not trying to reprimand, etc)?
- thinkcontext 5y ago"Documentation of variolation in the Americas may be traced back to 1706 in Boston, where Puritan minister Cotton Mather learned of the technique from his West African slave Onesimus.[3]:45 Further research into the matter revealed to Mather that several other slaves had too been variolated." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation
- throwaway894345 5y agoAh, thanks.