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Mathew Carey on the yellow fever of 1793 Author(s): Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 Contributor(s): Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, printer Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver Publication: Philadelphia : Printed by the author, November 14, 1793 Language(s): English Format: Text Subject(s): Yellow Fever Disease Outbreaks Mortality
11. Juni 2020 · “It is called a yellow fever, ... When the publisher Mathew Carey, who served on the city’s health committee, issued his account of the epidemic beginning in October 1793, he accused members ...
Soon after Philadelphia's Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 subsided, accusations began against the black citizens who had worked so hard to save the sick and dying. Mathew Carey, who had fled the ...
The book is Matthew Carey's take on the just-concluded yellow fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia. For first-hand accounts, this can be read with Dr. Benjamin Rush's Observations Upon the Origin of The Malignant Bilious, or Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, published in 1799. (Also available through Harvard's open collection).
In 1794–1796, Carey published America's first atlases. His 1802 map of Washington, D.C., was the first to name the stretch of land west of the United States Capitol as the "Mall". He frequently wrote articles on various social topics, including events during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, which proved a crisis for the city. Carey reported ...
The first major American yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia in July 1793 and peaked during the first weeks of October. Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital, was the most cosmopolitan city in the United States. Two thousand free Black people lived there, as well as many recent white French-speaking arrivals from the colony of Santo Domingo, who left the islands as a result of ...
After stating that yellow fever came to America from the West Indies, Carey repeated the erroneous belief that blacks were naturally (or unnaturally) immune to the disease, something that was soon rebutted when several blacks caught and died from the disease. Carey also criticized black Philadelphians’ behavior during the epidemic, despite their role in caring for the sick and the dead ...
