Refugee arrivals and the onset of epidemic
- When
- August 1793
- Where
- Port of Philadelphia
French colonial refugees from Saint-Domingue crowded Philadelphia's port, where the city's first yellow fever epidemic in thirty years began in early August 1793.
In spring 1793, French colonial refugees, some with slaves, arrived from Cap Français, Saint-Domingue, in present-day Haiti, crowding the port of Philadelphia. There, the first yellow fever epidemic in the city in thirty years began. The first two people to die of yellow fever in early August were both recent immigrants, one from Ireland and the other from Saint-Domingue. Philadelphia was then the temporary United States capital, with the government due to return in the fall.
Sources
- 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-24
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