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A Short Account of the Malignant Fever was published by Mathew Carey (January 28, 1760 – September 16, 1839) in 1793. The city of Philadelphia suffered a severe Yellow Fever epidemic. During that time, Carey, along with many others, fled the city in order to escape the disease. Left behind in the city were members of the Black community as well as the sick and dying. In this pamphlet, Carey accused the blacks directly of not only causing and spreading the disease but also invading the houses of the sick and dying. This seventeen-chapter pamphlet was widely distributed and consisted of four editions, each one developed one step further from the previous one.[1]

Referemces

  1. ^ http://pages.uoregon.edu/mjdennis/courses/history%20456_carey.htm

[1]

  1. ^ http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/yellowfever.html
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