Black History: Enslaved Black man Onesimus introduced inoculation to the US
February 24, 2021
Source: Wikipedia, Photo from History of Vaccines Onesimus born in late 1600’s was an African-born man who introduced the medical procedure of innoculation to the U.S. when he was enslaved in 1706 to his oppressor New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather. Onesimus, whose name was given to him by the minister, was instrumental in the mitigation…