Welcome to the history tricks where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Welcome back to part two of our coverage of Lady Mary Wartley Montague.

Let's give you a quick recap of part one.

Mary was a British aristocrat raised in the late 1600s on a massive collection of books and a complete lack of parental supervision.

She defied her father's wishes, gave up his support to Mary for love, or maybe at least to Mary for romance, made a splash at the court of George the first and at the shadow court of his son.

After giving birth to their first child, she contracted smallpox, although she did survive.

She was scarred both emotionally and physically.

She then was able to set off on this epic adventure across Europe and the Ottoman Empire to Constantinople where her husband had been appointed ambassador to Turkey.

She was introduced to the practice of inoculation or engraftment to prevent smallpox in which a small amount of disease material was purposely placed into a small wound in order to stimulate an immune response and give you a mild case of smallpox.

Thus protecting you from a future possibly fatal case of the disease.

She took the opportunity to get her young son engrafted while she was in Turkey.

It proved very successful and then she brought that technique back with her to England when their term ended just a couple years into it due to her connections with royalty and nobility.

It led to increasing acceptance of the procedure throughout Europe after some test runs on condemned country.

And for orphans which I suppose is the best they could do for clinical trials.

Response was divided among acceptance and anger, however, and inoculation did come with a small risk not to mention it was foreigners and women who had been the early inoculators.

So when she was faced with both people who felt like complaining at her and people clamoring for her to perform the operation and speak to them about it, Mary has withdrawn to the country for a while to get out of the limelight after having dropped an angry bomb through the newspaper to all the doubters and detractors before she went.

So if we could leave lady Mary there in the country for just a minute more like 11 minutes.

I would like to set up a parallel timeline which is a sentence I don't know if it's ever been spoken before.

I don't know.

I would like to set up a parallel timeline.

Okay, so across the Atlantic in the colony of Massachusetts, a Puritan congregation put all their money together to give their minister a gift cotton mother was his name and you might know him from his work as the head writer in the groundbreaking long running series entitled the Salem which trials.

And what was this gift you ask well it was a human being and enslaved man from West Africa many Puritans actively participated in slave trafficking.

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