History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0340 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Peacock Flower
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The idea
Native American and enslaved African women in oppressive colonial regimes are said to have used the peacock flower to prevent the birth of children into slavery.
In practice
Botanists such as Sir Hans Sloane cataloguing hundreds of new plants in Jamaica in sixteen eighty-seven.
Where people slip
The anchor notes that Europeans distrusted medical knowledge from African or native sources and lost the benefit of it.
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