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Mar 26, 2020 · The people Lining listed as susceptible to yellow fever—whites, mulattoes, Native Americans, and people of mixed European and Native American heritage—were born in America or recently arrived from Europe. Lining witnessed blacks who probably survived yellow fever as children in Africa, where the disease was endemic.
May 28, 2020 · The 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic: The Washingtons, Hamilton and Jefferson. May 28, 2020. Posted by: Neely Tucker. This is a guest post by Julie Miller, a historian in the Manuscript Division. Martha Washington, in an unfinished portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Theodor Horydczak Collection. Prints and Photographs Division.
The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793. Yellow fever is known for bringing on a characteristic yellow tinge to the eyes and skin, and for the terrible “black vomit” caused by bleeding into the stomach.
Feb 5, 2016 · A series of 19th-century images depicting the development of yellow fever. | Images courtesy of Wellcome Images via Wikimedia Commons The summer of 1793 was unusually dry and hot in...
A Spotlight on a Primary Source by Unknown Correspondent. Between August 1 and November 9, 1793, approximately 11,000 people contracted yellow fever in the US capital of Philadelphia. Of that number, 5,000 people, 10 percent of the city’s population, died. The disease gets its name from the jaundiced eyes and skin of the victims.
