Black History Month: Onesimus Spreads Wisdom That Saves Lives of Bostonians During a Smallpox Epidemic Onesimus, and enslaved man from Africa, may have brought variolation to the American Colonies in the early 1700s

I want to take a moment and thank a man named Onesimus, an African man brought to the colonies against his will, and sold into slavery. Through his brilliance, Massachusetts colonists used a technique called variolation to fend off a smallpox outbreak in the early 1700s.
#BlackHistoryMonth #Onesimus

“... concerning #Onesimus: So that your good be not according to compulsion, but according to free will. Thus the God of the...” #Origen «Homilies on Jeremiah» #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #Solemnity #23rd #Sundaymass
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“... concerning #Onesimus: So that your good be not according to compulsion, but according to free will. Thus the God of the...” #Origen «Homilies on Jeremiah» #Podcast: Encountering #Jesus with the #ChurchFathers #Catholic #Solemnity #23rd #Sundaymass
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Onesimus (Bostonian) - Wikipedia

Apologies for my late entry to #blackhistory month.

Please don’t forget #Onesimus.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onesimu...

Black Kos, Week In Review - The African American who introduced inoculations to the Western World The African American who introduced inoculation to the Western World Commentary: Black Scientists, Explorers, and Inventors By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor Fears and misinformation ...

How African Folk Medicine let the way for vaccinations: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... #folkmedicine #folklore #indigenousmedicine #Onesimus #cottonmather

Stop this nonsense. ONESIMUS, ONESIMUS, ONESIMUS, #ONESIMUS.

A Black African enslaved gave the gift of cure to his whiteman enslaver and they used it to make profit.
#RFK jnr is the one

This is pretty much at the heart of a paper I’ve been working on called “Re-opening the Case of #Onesimus” - a review of our presuppositions as we read #Colossians & #Philemon.

Enjoyed considering your study guide’s tenets.

Reopening the Case of Onesimus.pdf

“Re-opening the Case of Onesimus”…

drive.google.com/file/d/11J9K...

#philemon #onesimus #justice

Case-study: Read #Philemon objectively.

There’s no evidence #Onesimus ran away.
Nor stole.
No mention of #forgiveness needed
(by the Christian slave-owner).

There IS direct evidence Paul calls for #manumission.

#solascriptura

"Amazon sent me a box.
I sent it back.
That box didn't run away.
Nor steal its contents."

@IndyChristian re #Onesimus #Philemon

Beware inferring our own biases into scripture.

How #African Indigenous #knowledge helped shape modern #medicine

In the 1700s, an enslaved man named #Onesimus shared a novel way to stave off #smallpox during the Boston epidemic.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ar...

Old story, but a nice present-day on vaccinations. #vaccinations #history #BlackHistory #Onesimus #AfricanHistory Get your shots!

#BlackHistoryMonth #Onesimus