Yellow fever epidemic of 1793
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Yellow fever epidemic of 1793 was an outbreak of Yellow fever that gripped the city of Philadelphia in the summer of 1793.
Benjamin Rush, along with the help of church leaders Absalom Jones and Richard Allen were on the front lines fighting against the epidemic.[1]
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- 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, by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
- An account of the Bilious remitting yellow Fever ... of Philadelphia ... 1793, by Benjamin Rush