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Fever Study Guide

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by John Edgar Wideman
About 42 pages (12,478 words)
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What insights can you draw about late 18th-century race relations from "Fever"? Explain your answer.

Investigate the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia. Try and find answers to such questions as how many people died; how people of different races were affected; how did the outbreak affect business and daily life; how and why did the outbreak end. After answering these and other questions, hypothesize how this epidemic affected the development of Philadelphia.

In a 1996 interview, Wideman equated the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia with the present-day AIDS epidemic, which was not a serious medical factor at the time he wrote "Fever." Do you find such a comparison apt? Why.....

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