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Tobacco is used for "smoking," a form of punishment against enslaved African people.
Date: 1847
Black history
Pharmaceutical industry
Slavery
Tobacco
Traditional/folk/cultural medicine
Colonization
"Smoking" is the prolonged imprisonment of an enslaved person inside a sealed shed with a pile of burning tobacco, thereby weaponizing a traditional medicine.
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