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The Louisiana State Board of Health nonconsensually performs tests on incarcerated Black men.

Date: 1907

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Black men who are incarcerated in a Louisiana State Prison are subject to a diet of only molasses for 5 weeks to study the properties of sulfuric acid in molasses.