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minus-squareSomeAmateur@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months ago gave smallpox to anyone who looked different than them It’s not like they had a choice in who did/didn’t get it.
minus-squarespujb@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoNope. Sadly. “We gave them two blankets and a handkerchief out of the smallpox hospital,” Captain William Trent, a militia captain, wrote in his journal. “I hope it will have the desired effect.” https://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/amherst/lord_jeff.html https://allthatsinteresting.com/smallpox-blankets
It’s not like they had a choice in who did/didn’t get it.
Nope. Sadly.
https://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/amherst/lord_jeff.html https://allthatsinteresting.com/smallpox-blankets