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In November of 1793, Washington, his staff and cabinet, along with many other Philadelphia upper and middle class residents, found temporary housing in Germantown nine miles away until the deadly yellow fever epidemic ended. In town, Philadelphian…
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Clergymen Richard Allen and Absalom Jones organized their congregations and other free Africans who attended the sick and buried the dead during the raging yellow fever epidemic of 1793. Although misguided, the respected Dr. Benjamin Rush had enco…
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The Philadelphia Bank Building was built in 1857-59 for the Pennsylvania Bank which failed during the Panic of 1857 and was completed by the Philadelphia Bank. John M. Gries was the architect. The cast iron front doors and window grill work were b…
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Oney Judge's strong desire for freedom drove the 22-year-old enslaved seamstress to flee the President's house on May 21, 1796. With the help of friends of African descent, she found passage to New Hampshire, where she married, raised a family, an…
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In 1793, Cap Français, the capital of St. Domingue (Haiti), nearly burned to the ground during a massive uprising of the enslaved. White and Creole plantation owners, with enslaved people in tow, fled to Philadelphia and other American port citie…
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Many evenings, Oney Judge would sit on her pallet where she slept at the foot of Martha Washington's bed, sewing and listening to the First Lady read the Bible, sing hymns, and pray with her two granddaughters in the next room.
In the 1840s, afte…
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A NEW NATION:
A NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT
The federal government moved from New York City to Philadelphia in 1790. Years of contentious debate over where to locate the nation's capital contributed to the divide between North and South. Southern del…
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On June 26, 1798, three weeks before Congress passed the Sedition Act, President Adams greeted dinner guests at the President's House. Two blocks away, Benjamin Franklin Bache, grandson of Benjamin Franklin and editor of the Aurora, was arrested f…
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"You have invariably through the most trying times maintained a constant friendship and attention to the cause of our country and its independence and freedom."
(George Washington to Samuel Fraunces)
Jamaican-born Samuel "Black Sam" Fraunces, ow…
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In March of 1793, Washington signed the Fugitive Slave Act, which gave slave owners explicit authority to recover escaped slaved from any part of the nation. Some agents even took advantage of this law to kidnap free people of African descent.