When Science Breaks Bad | Arstechnica
Q. How would you go on an expedition to tropics in XVIII century?
A. “If you were an English naturalist in 1771 and you wanted to collect specimens from the tropics, you had to go on a slave ship; those were the only ships that went.
Q. Science and slavery? That’s a strange combination …
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Find out more at Historians expose early scientists’ debt to the slave trade by Sam Kean via Science Magazine
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Credit: Slave ships on the ocean. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1858.