Revealing the Untold Narrative: Hidden Black Heroines in STEM
How African indigenous knowledge helped shape modern medicine: Onesimus, an enslaved African man, played a pivotal role in combating the smallpox epidemic in colonial Boston during the early 18th century. Introduced to the concept of inoculation by his African roots, Onesimus shared his knowledge with his owner, Puritan minister Cotton Mather. Mather, despite initial skepticism, […]