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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 ºìÌÒÊÓƵ found themselves on the wrong side of both conventional wisdom and contemporary piety.