Mathew Carey
Books
- The Summer the Capital Emptied Yellow Fever, Race, and the Collapse of Philadelphia in 1793 · Liszt Think
In August 1793, yellow fever struck Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital. Within weeks, George Washington fled and half the city followed. Five thousand died before the first frost. Amid the exodus, Dr.
- A Philosophy of the Blood and the Bile…tween Rush and the Black community would outlast the epidemic, but it would also generate conflict. After the fever subsided, the publisher Mathew Carey would accuse Black nurses of price-gouging and theft, exploiting the sick rather than helping them. Allen and Jones would respond with a pa…
- The Coffee-House Exchange and the Waterfront Stench…t the substantial citizens who lived on the high ground near the State House. The city had seen sickly seasons before. This one would pass. Mathew Carey, the publisher and bookseller, was an exception. He was a careful observer of the city’s moods, a man whose livelihood depended on understa…
- The Arrival of the Hankey…he geography, and the ship’s history all point in the same direction. The Hankey is rarely named in the contemporary accounts of the panic. Mathew Carey’s narrative of the epidemic does not identify a specific ship as the source. Benjamin Rush’s letters do not name one either. The newspapers…