The Native Americans gave that to us unknowingly. We gave them smallpox on purpose.
Not true.
oh they knew
Smallpox on purpose? No one knew what caused smallpox as virus and bacteria were unknown! The causes of disease were thought to be ..
1. Bad Air
2. Star alignments and horoscope.
3. Sorcery
4. Witchcraft
5. Hexes.
Here is one actual transmission of smallpox to a tribe.
https://www.historynet.com/smallpox-in-the-blankets.htm
“But the chain of events behind the one authentic case of deliberate smallpox contamination began in 1757 at the siege of Fort William Henry (in present-day upstate New York), when Indians allied with the French ignored the terms of a surrender worked out between the British and the French, broke into the garrison hospital and killed and scalped a number of patients, some of them suffering from smallpox. The blankets and clothing the Indians looted from the patients in the hospital and corpses in the cemetery, carried back to their villages, reportedly touched off a smallpox epidemic.”
“””” We gave them smallpox on purpose.””””
We did?