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We hear from a PhD student at New York University about her project ‘Smallpox and Slavery: Morbidity, Medical Intervention, and Enslaved People's Lives in the Greater Caribbean’.

When inoculation against smallpox was introduced to Britain from the Middle East in the early 1720s, members of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ found themselves on the wrong side of both conventional wisdom and contemporary piety.