Book/Printed Material 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
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Image 1 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 16- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 2 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful …- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 3 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … WILLIAM PARKER 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…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 4 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … No54 District of Pennsylvania to wit Be It Remembered That on the twentythird day of January in the eighteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America Absalom Jones and…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 5 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A NARRATIVE c IN consequence of a partial representation of the conduct of the people who were employed to nurse the sick in the late calamitous state of the city of Philadelphia…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 6 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 4 A NARRATIVE c day they were scenes of woe indeed The Lord was pleased to strengthen us and remove all fear from us and disposed our hearts to be as useful…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 7 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A NARRATIVE c 5 it ought to be remarked although Mr Carey hath not done it that two thirds of the persons who rendered these essential services were people of colour who…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 8 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 6 A NARRATIVE c to give what they thought fitwe set no price until the reward was fixed by those we had served After paying the people we had to assist us…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 9 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … duced to shew our actual situation with regard to profitbut it is enough to exhibit to the public from the above specified items of Cash paid and Cash received without taking into…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 10 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 8 A NARRATIVE c ture shuddered at the thoughts of the infection and the talk assigned was aggravated by lunacy and being left much alone the them Had Mr Carey been solicited…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 11 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A Narrative c 9 count therefore we shall the liberty to tell of the conduct of some of the whites We know fix pounds was demanded by and paid to a white…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 12 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 10 A NARRATIVE c tal and they were retained and the others discharg ed when it was reduced to order and good govern ment The bad consequences many of our colour apprehend…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 13 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A NARRATIVE c 11 poor man with a little water Master replied the good natured fellow I will supply the gentleman with water but surely I will not take your money for…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 14 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 12 A NARRATIVE c go for money God will see it and may be make me take the disorder and die but if I go and take no money he may spare…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 15 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A NARRATIVE c 13 called the vilest The few that were discovered to merit public censure were brought to justice which ought to have sufficed without being canvassed over in his Trifle…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 16 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 14 A NARRATIVE c opinion as great a proportion of white as of black inclined to such practices It is rather to be admired that so few instances of pilfering and robbery…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 17 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … and nursing in common cases we have suffered equally with the whites our distress hath been very great but much unknown to the white people Few have been the whites that paid…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 18 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 16 A NARRATIVE c were 67 of our color buried and in 1793 it amount ed to co5 thus the burials among us have increased more than fourfold was not this in…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 19 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A Narrative c 17 how he would have it conducted it seemed a surprising circumstance for the man appeared at the time to be in perfect health but calling two or three…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 20 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … Doctor Rush for enabling us to be so We have bled upwards of eight hundred people and do declare we have not received to the value of a dollar and a half…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 21 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A NARRATIVE c 19 even friends when they met in the streets were afraid of each other much less would they admit into their houses the distressed orphan that had been where…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 22 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 20 A NARRATIVE c died that night A white man threatened to shoot us if we passed by his house with a corpse we buried him three days after We have been…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 23 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A NARRATIVE c 21 To MATTHEW CLARKSON EsQ Mayor of the City of Philadelphia SIR For the pefsonal refpect we bear you and for the fatisfaction of the Mayor we declare that…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 24 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 22 A NARRATIVE c said he had lately been discharged from the hospital and had none to lay on Thomas Leipers two beds were buried in the Potters fired and remained there…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 25 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A NARRATIVE c 23 relinquished our disagreeable and dangerous employment and we hope there is no impropriety in soliciting a certificate of your approbation of our conduct so far as it hath…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 26 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 24 A NARRATIVE C are our great oppressors would manifest if reduced to the pitiable condition of a slave We believe if you would try the experiment of taking a few black…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 27 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A NARRATIVE c 25 abhor an Egyptian because thou wast a stranger in his land Deut xxiii 7 The meek and humble Jesus the great pattern of humanity and every other virtue…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 28 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 26 A NARRATIVE c with whom you have not thought it beneath your dignity to contend many have been convinced of their error condemned their former conduct and become zealous advocates for…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 29 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A NARRATIVE c 27 power of the most cruel master ends and all forrow and tears are wiped away To you who are favoured with freedom let your conduct manifest your gratitude…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 30 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … A NARRATIVE c sing Your righteous indignation is roused at the means taken to supply the place of the murdered babe You see our race more actually destroyed than was Pharaohs power…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 31 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful …- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 32 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful …- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
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Image 33 of A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful … 16161616WILLIAM PARKER 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…- Contributor: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Allen, Richard - Jones, Absalom
- Date: 1794
About this Item
Title
- 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
Names
- Jones, Absalom, 1746-1818
- Allen, Richard, 1760-1831
- American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : Printed for the authors, by William W. Woodward ..., 1794.
Headings
- - Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800
- - Carey, Mathew,--1760-1839.--Short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia
- - African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800
- - African American nurses--Early works to 1800
Notes
- - Signatures: A-B⁶ C².
- - Evans 27170
- - LC copy has inscriptions on t.p.: John Dickenson, Esq. from his friend Miers Fisher. Also [D?] V. Way.
- - Conserved; 000691.6 1973 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda
- - LAC tnb 2021-02-09 no edits (1 card)
- - LAC brd 2019-05-29 no edits (2 cards)
Medium
- 28 p. ; 19 cm. (12mo)
Call Number/Physical Location
- F158.44 .J7
- AC901 .H3 vol. 101, no. 6
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 02013737
Online Format
- online text
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