How Free Black People Helped Fight America’s First Epidemic and Transformed the Nation’s Capital
4:00am PDT - July 2nd, 2020 independence day - TimeAmericans never saw it coming. Hardly anyone in Philadelphia, the nation’s temporary capital, noticed the first to die in the summer of 1793, a few weeks after the celebration of Independence Day: a few foreigners, an oyster seller in the waterfront slums. Wh…