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escaped slaves in the new world
grew many African crops and used African practices of
pasturing livestock in fallow fields
is that surprising?
- practical
limitations
- ecology
- indigenous
knowledge
- culture
this chapter focuses
on tropic regions but there were colonies of escaped slaves in
the Great Dismal Swamp and along the Savannah River
similar crops such as peanuts which are similar to African
ground nuts
vaccination for smallpox:
- smallpox was endemic in the areas of Africa
that slaves came from
- African
practice of transmitting a mild case to a young person--inoculation
- introduced in
England in 1721 from the middle east
- very
controversial in New England (death rate was 2% instead of
14% for the natural disease)
- Edward Jenner
invented vaccination in 1798, using a milder disease called
cowpox