Prof. Elise Mitchell, Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University

The African Atlantic history of smallpox inoculation is a rich, yet oft-overlooked story. This lecture contextualizes the more familiar history of Onesimus and Cotton Mather in early eighteenth-century Boston within the broader history of Africans performing smallpox inoculations in West Africa, Jamaica, and Saint Domingue (Haiti) in the Revolutionary Era of the late eighteenth century.

This event is hybrid, held in person at the venue below (The Commons) and streaming online. Stream the event here on YouTube or here on Facebook!