Wrought iron process that drove UK success was appropriated from black metallurgists, records suggest

This is unsurprising, because African iron working is a good thousand years older than what we call ‘the iron age.’ That African expertise in iron working was what helped kick off the Industrial Revolution is just another tragedy of slavery.

  • fossilesqueM
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    1 year ago

    TIL :) I knew it was something with vaccines but couldn’t remember.