Enslaved Africans Showed Whites How To Inoculate Against Small Pox

[Two Thumbs]

Smallpox inoculation was being used in England before this; it wasn't 'learned from black slaves', they were inoculated by slave owners before being sold or picked it up from whites.

link plz

 

[Picaro]

Smallpox inoculation was being used in England before this; it wasn't 'learned from black slaves', they were inoculated by slave owners before being sold or picked it up from whites.

link plz

Google has hundreds of thousands of them. Because the inoculation technique they used then was hazardous to the inoculators, they trained slaves and peasants in how to do it, that's all. Some historians claim it was invented in Turkey, in Istanbul, which is plausible because of the sizable Christian and Jewish scholars and medical community there.

The vaccine came along later, near the end of the 18th century.

Inoculation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So, the title of the thread should be 'Whitey Teaches Ignorant Black People How To Inoculate Against Smallpox, Saving Untold Millions of Black Lives', not the lame attempt at dissembling we get from the typical Asclepias distortions of history.

 

[Asclepias]

Ummmm, that article says it was shown to Europeans in the Americas in 1721. As early as 1700 British missionaries returning from China had written reports about the practice and people trading with the Turks had seen the practice. It wasn't completely unknown to whites before chattel slavery

So why did whites pretend they didnt know how to do it and let all those other whites die then?

 

[Asclepias]

So the lesson here is that blacks all became imbeciles when slavery was outlawed.

No. The lesson is that Blacks have saved white people on numerous occasions instead of letting them die out or regress back into their natural states of being neanderthals or die from small pox..

 

[Picaro]

Ummmm, that article says it was shown to Europeans in the Americas in 1721. As early as 1700 British missionaries returning from China had written reports about the practice and people trading with the Turks had seen the practice. It wasn't completely unknown to whites before chattel slavery

So why did whites pretend they didnt know how to do it and let all those other whites die then?

Why do freed black slaves turn around and enslave other black people first chance they get?

 

[Asclepias]

Smallpox inoculation was being used in England before this; it wasn't 'learned from black slaves', they were inoculated by slave owners before being sold or picked it up from whites.

link plz

Google has hundreds of thousands of them. Because the inoculation technique they used then was hazardous to the inoculators, they trained slaves and peasants in how to do it, that's all. Some historians claim it was invented in Turkey, in Istanbul, which is plausible because of the sizable Christian and Jewish scholars and medical community there.

The vaccine came along later, near the end of the 18th century.

Inoculation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So, the title of the thread should be 'Whitey Teaches Ignorant Black People How To Inoculate Against Smallpox, Saving Untold Millions of Black Lives', not the lame attempt at dissembling we get from the typical Asclepias distortions of history.

So I ask again if whites knew about it why did they treat it as some sort of alien concept?

"As word spread of the new medicine, the people of Boston were terrified and angry. According to Mather, they “raised an horrid Clamour.” Their rage came from many sources; fear that inoculation might spread smallpox further; knowledge that the bubonic plague was on the rise in France; and a righteous fury that it was immoral to tamper with God’s judgment in this way. There was a racial tone to their response as well, as they rebelled against an idea that was not only foreign, but African (one critic, an eminent doctor, attacked Mather for his “Negroish” thinking). Some of Mather’s opponents compared inoculation to what we would now call terrorism—as if “a man should willfully throw a Bomb into a Town.”"

 

[Asclepias]

Ummmm, that article says it was shown to Europeans in the Americas in 1721. As early as 1700 British missionaries returning from China had written reports about the practice and people trading with the Turks had seen the practice. It wasn't completely unknown to whites before chattel slavery

So why did whites pretend they didnt know how to do it and let all those other whites die then?

Why do freed black slaves turn around and enslave other black people first chance they get?

You didnt answer my question.

 

[Picaro]

So the lesson here is that blacks all became imbeciles when slavery was outlawed.

No. The lesson is that Blacks have saved white people on numerous occasions instead of letting them die out or regress back into their natural states of being neanderthals.

no, the lesson is white people develop useful knowledge and skills and pass them along to others, while black people remain helpless without white people telling them what to do.

 

[Asclepias]

So the lesson here is that blacks all became imbeciles when slavery was outlawed.

No. The lesson is that Blacks have saved white people on numerous occasions instead of letting them die out or regress back into their natural states of being neanderthals.

no, the lesson is white people develop useful knowledge and skills and pass them along to others, while black people remain helpless without white people telling them what to do.

The facts say that whites were the helpless ones until Blacks educated them on civilization and as history points out inoculation against small pox.

 

[whitehall]

Since Colonist Edward Jenner is generally credited with the first successful inoculation against smallpox in the New World it's a stretch to credit captured Africans for the procedure. Actually Jenner's understanding that exposure to cow pox offered immunity to smallpox is far more important than the "inoculation" which was merely the transfer of infected cow pox to a scratch or a cut which could have been made by a knife or almost any object.

 

[Picaro]

Since Colonist Edward Jenner is generally credited with the first successful inoculation against smallpox in the New World it's a stretch to credit captured Africans for the procedure. Actually Jenner's understanding that exposure to cow pox offered immunity to smallpox is far more important than the "inoculation" which was merely the transfer of infected cow pox to a scratch or a cut which could have been made by a knife or almost any object.

The OP clearly says Mather had read of the procedure, and just wasn't sure about how to do it; it was still a controversial topic in medical journals at the time, and yes, the slaves got it from either Muslim or Spanish slave traders, they didn't invent it. That's just a stupid fantasy of the OP poster's, who obviously didn't read his own source he linked to, which is why a white person has to help him understand what he really pointed out, as he doesn't know.

 

[Picaro]

Ummmm, that article says it was shown to Europeans in the Americas in 1721. As early as 1700 British missionaries returning from China had written reports about the practice and people trading with the Turks had seen the practice. It wasn't completely unknown to whites before chattel slavery

So why did whites pretend they didnt know how to do it and let all those other whites die then?

Why do freed black slaves turn around and enslave other black people first chance they get?

You didnt answer my question.

Your own link answers most of it, you silly racist idiot.

 

[Asclepias]

Ummmm, that article says it was shown to Europeans in the Americas in 1721. As early as 1700 British missionaries returning from China had written reports about the practice and people trading with the Turks had seen the practice. It wasn't completely unknown to whites before chattel slavery

So why did whites pretend they didnt know how to do it and let all those other whites die then?

Why do freed black slaves turn around and enslave other black people first chance they get?

You didnt answer my question.

Your own link answers most of it, you silly racist idiot.

My link says whites thought it was African vudoo. Obviously whites had no knowledge of it.

 

[jon_berzerk]

interesting story, however the chinese were doing it by 1000 BC

and various forms of it occurred throughout history.


wonder why a slave would want to save people that would own him?

Blacks were big fans of slavery; they invented it, like they invented everything else. The freed slaves that founded Liberia set up plantations and enslaved the locals, getting back to their original roots. Wonder why they don't take credit for that?

 

[Picaro]

My link says whites thought it was African vudoo. Obviously whites had no knowledge of it.

Your own article doesn't support that. lol you should read the links you post; it wouldn't make you any smarter, but at least you might avoid your usual embarrassment.

 

[Picaro]

interesting story, however the chinese were doing it by 1000 BC

and various forms of it occurred throughout history.


wonder why a slave would want to save people that would own him?

Blacks were big fans of slavery; they invented it, like they invented everything else. The freed slaves that founded Liberia set up plantations and enslaved the locals, getting back to their original roots. Wonder why they don't take credit for that?

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[Asclepias]

My link says whites thought it was African vudoo. Obviously whites had no knowledge of it.

Your own article doesn't support that. lol you should read the links you post; it wouldn't make you any smarter, but at least you might avoid your usual embarrassment.

Yeah my link supports it no matter how terrible your reading comprehension is.

"Their rage came from many sources; fear that inoculation might spread smallpox further; knowledge that the bubonic plague was on the rise in France; and a righteous fury that it was immoral to tamper with God’s judgment in this way. There was a racial tone to their response as well, as they rebelled against an idea that was not only foreign, but African (one critic, an eminent doctor, attacked Mather for his “Negroish” thinking)."

 

[Picaro]

My link says whites thought it was African vudoo. Obviously whites had no knowledge of it.

Your own article doesn't support that. lol you should read the links you post; it wouldn't make you any smarter, but at least you might avoid your usual embarrassment.

Yeah my link supports it no matter how terrible your reading comprehension is.

"Their rage came from many sources; fear that inoculation might spread smallpox further; knowledge that the bubonic plague was on the rise in France; and a righteous fury that it was immoral to tamper with God’s judgment in this way. There was a racial tone to their response as well, as they rebelled against an idea that was not only foreign, but African (one critic, an eminent doctor, attacked Mather for his “Negroish” thinking)."

Since you claimed to have read the article, then you know you're blatantly lying then.

Mather had come close to choosing a career in medicine, and devoured the scientific publications of the Royal Society in London. As the society began to turn its attention to inoculation practices around the world, Mather realized that he had an extraordinary expert living in his household. Onesimus was a “pretty Intelligent Fellow,” it had become clear to him.

Without Mather having read about the practice in white medical journals and your slaves being taught it by white people, they wouldn't have saved anybody, and most likely would be dead from it themselves. Too bad for your false spin this is easily found by simple Google Scholaring.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

interesting story, however the chinese were doing it by 1000 BC

and various forms of it occurred throughout history.


wonder why a slave would want to save people that would own him?

he was actually an indentured slave from Turkey.
He did end up buying his freedom toward the end of his life.
He was not actually an african like you would think of an african. That and he did not invent or come up with anything new, he simply shared information on how it was being done in other parts of the world.

 

[Sundance508]

Ummmm, that article says it was shown to Europeans in the Americas in 1721. As early as 1700 British missionaries returning from China had written reports about the practice and people trading with the Turks had seen the practice. It wasn't completely unknown to whites before chattel slavery

The practice of smallpox inoculation (as opposed to the later practice of vaccination) was developed possibly in 8th-century India or 10th-century China. Spreading its reach in seventeenth-century Turkey, inoculation or, rather, variolation, involved infecting a person via a cut in the skin with exudate from a patient with a relatively mild case of smallpox (variola), in order to bring about a manageable and recoverable infection that would provide later immunity. By the beginning of the 18th century, the Royal Society in England was discussing the practice of inoculation, and the smallpox epidemic in 1713 spurred further interest. It was not until 1721, however, that England recorded its first case of inoculation.

Though it is true the slave with the weird name had been innoculated successfully in Africa against the disease of smallpox(most likely by arab slave traders) and related this experience to his owner who then was able (although with a lot of opposition)to convince Bostonians to adopt the practice.