Yellow Fever and National Politics in the 1790s-U.S.

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Primary Sources    
Elizabeth Drinker, Diary Entries, August 23-October 24, 1793  
Matthew Carey, A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia; with a Statement of the Proceedings that Took Place on the Subject in Different Part of the United States, 1793       
Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793: And a Refutation of Some Censures Thrown upon Them in  Some Late Publications, 1794  
Broadside Posted in Burlington, New Jersey, 1793   
Anonymous, An Earnest Call: Occasioned by the Alarming Pestilential
Contagion, Addressed to the People of Philadelphia, 1793   
Noah Webster, A Collection of Papers on the Subject of Bilious Fevers, Prevalent in the United States for a Few Years Past, 1796   
Letters between Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Rush, 1800 
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