Search Results for "West Africa"
West African medical knowledge, the slave trade and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ
history of scienceDr Carolyn Roberts of Yale University, currently writing her first book 'To heal and to harm: medicine, knowledge, and power in the British slave trade', discusses some key documents in Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's archives.
West Africans and the history of smallpox inoculation: Q&A with Elise A. Mitchell
history of scienceWe hear from a PhD student at New York University about her project ‘Smallpox and Slavery: Morbidity, Medical Intervention, and Enslaved People's Lives in the Greater Caribbean’.