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Introduction
It is Christmas, 1793 and the city of Philadelphia is still reeling from the recent yellow fever epidemic. The city is just coming back to life and you and three colleagues at the Philadelphia Journal newspaper are writing the first newspaper to be published since the city shut down. you are to write a 4 page edition about the yellow fever, its victims and those who tried to help, and how the city coped with what was going on during the epidemic. |