I urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment, who was once useless to you but is now useful to [both] you and me. I am sending him, that is, my own heart, ...

No image of Onesimus exists but his work helped pave the way for modern ideas of vaccination, as shown in this engraving of Dr. Edward Jenner performing a smallpox vaccination. When a smallpox ...

Three hundred years ago, Boston was in the midst of another deadly health crisis: the spread of smallpox. In the 1721 smallpox epidemic, the disease infected more than half of the city and led to the ...

Through his musical journey he met the Messiah and he was saved. He sings and boasts about Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour. Onesisum is now a changed person who is in the field helping harvesting ...

In the 1700s, an enslaved man named Onesimus shared a novel way to stave off smallpox during the Boston epidemic. Here’s his little-told story, and how the Atlantic slave trade and Indigenous medicine ...