On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case occurred ...

Over the summer while reading "John Adams" by David McCullough, I was surprised to learn that the idea of innoculating for smallpox in America came from a slave. Onesimus told his master, Cotton ...

Most high school students have never heard of Onesimus. He was an enslaved African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of smallpox in Boston. In 1721, Onesimus introduced his owner, Cotton ...

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