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Because before America became a nation, a slave named Onesimus developed a smallpox vaccine that saved the citizens of Boston
To be fair, Onesimus didn't develop a smallpox vaccine. Onesimus, once a slave in colonial Africa, was able to relate the practice of inoculation being used in European colonies of Africa.
His owner, the American Minister Cotton Mather, was unfamiliar with the concept until educated by Onesimus.