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  • Patients and Patience: The Long Career of Yellow Fever

    Extending the narrative of Philadelphia's epidemic past 1793 yields lessons that are more complex and less comforting than the story that's often told.
    by Simon Finger via The Panorama on May 18, 2020

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Richard Allen (above) and Absalom Jones' "A Refutation". book cover

How the Politics of Race Played Out During the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic

Free blacks cared for those infected with yellow fever even as their own lives were imperiled.
by Alicia Ault via Smithsonian on March 3, 2021
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