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I have been following https://adverts250project.org/ for years (mostly on twitter, sometimes at the website). The object is to go through newspapers 250 years ago to find classified ads relevant to slavery - usually either runaways or for sale ads. The idea of selling people has always been appalling, but it's interesting to see what was in the list of qualifications. In this case, I like seeing that he had had measles and smallpox because it means that the fact that he was immune to these diseases was a selling point. A fair number of them mention having had smallpox, but I hadn't remembered measles in previous ones. I'm really worried about measles now. I'm not so worried about smallpox, but I do think that if there are any live samples still in labs that someone should just pour bleach on them.