The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
Author: Molly Caldwell Crosby
Publisher: Berkley
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 308
Cover Price: $ 24.95
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Slave ships brought it to America as far back as 1648-and over the centuries,
yellow fever epidemics plagued the United States. Carried along the mighty
Mississippi River, it ravaged towns from New Orleans to St. Louis. New York City lost 2,000 lives in one year alone. It even forced the nation's capital to relocate from
Philadelphia to Washington, DC.
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Along with the Missouri, the Mississippi forms the longest river system in the world and ultimately drains almost all of the central United States. Philadelphia was founded by William Penn and has many of the iconic monuments of the American Revolution.
