The Enslaved Teen Who Cracked Vanilla’s Secret—CBC JHI Annual Lecture

The story of an enslaved Black teenager named Edmond, whose discovery in 1841 completely transformed the vanilla industry. Presented by Eric Jennings, one of the Jackman Humanities Institute's 2022-23 Faculty Research Fellows, who has been examining the history of vanilla labour in the nineteenth century from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives for his project at the JHI this year. 

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