Search Results for "West Africa"
West African medical knowledge, the slave trade and ºìÌÒÊÓƵ
history of scienceDr Carolyn Roberts of Yale University, currently writing her first book 'To heal and to harm: medicine, knowledge, and power in the British slave trade', discusses some key documents in ºìÌÒÊÓƵ's archives.
West Africans and the history of smallpox inoculation: Q&A with Elise A. Mitchell
history of scienceWe 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’.