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INTRODUCTION: Philadelphia Stories, 1790-1860; 1. FEVER; Mathew Carey, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the Color of FeverLLLL...; Ministers and Criminals: Richard Allen, John Joyce, and Peter Matthias; Benjamin Rush’s Heroic Interventions; Mathew Carey’s Fugitive Philadelphians; Charles Brockden Brown’s Experiments in Character; 2. MANNERS; Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and the Irrepressible Teague; Edward W. Clay’s Life in Philadelphia; The Rage for Profiles: Silhouettes at Peale’s Museum; Philadelphia Metempsychosis in Robert Montgomery Bird’s Sheppard Lee; The Peculiar Position of Our People; William Whipper and Debates in the Black Conventions..; Disfranchisement and Appeal; Joseph Willson’s Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia; 3. RIOT; Doomed to Destruction: The History of Pennsylvania Hall; The Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia, and Henry James’s American Scene The Mysteries of the City: George Lippard, Edgar Allan Poe; The Fiction of Riot: George Lippard, John Beauchamp Jones; The Condition of the Free People of Color; 4. FREEDOM; The Struggle over Philadelphia: Mary Howard Schoolcraft, Sara Josepha; Hale, Martin Robison Delany, James McCune Smith, and William; Whipper Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends; A Rather Curious Protest; Still Life in Georgia; History and Farce; Parlor and Riot; Philadelphia Vanitas; The Social Experiment in Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno; CODA: John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia; Bibliography

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