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The Louisiana State Board of Health nonconsensually performs tests on incarcerated Black men.
Date: 1907
Experimentation
History of science
Prison Industrial Complex
Research and testing
Black history
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.
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