I: Plague, Fire      II: Philadelphia           III: Circulation                 IV: Urban Limits     V: Tripping            VII: Expositions


Transatlantic Traffic:
London, Philadelphia, and the World, 1665-1876
Unit Six
Additional Materials

  • The Peel Web's site on British Prison Reform, with full information on Jeremy Bentham and the emigration of the Philadelphia "separate system" to Britain.
  • The Mutter Museum, part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Click HERE to go to their on-line exhibit on the history of infectious diseases.
  • UCLA's excellent site on epidemiology, which contains a very full Account of 19th-Century Theories of Cholera, of Cholera in Prisons and in Workhouses, and especially of John Snow. Most interesting is their Interactive Map of John Snow's London. Explore this site in detail.

  • An interesting article on John Snow and Data Processing, entitled Data in the Time of Cholera: How a 19th century physician's data warehouse helped prevent the spread of cholera.

  • Three London Times articles from 1854 about cholera.

  • The text of William Wordsworth's sonnet "To Toussaint L'Overture" (1807).

  • The exhaustive and excellent site American Slave Narratives, which contains an extremely good introduction and bibliography to this body of writing.

  • The University of North Carolina's Documenting the American South, which includes a superb site on William Wells Brown, containing the complete texts of his Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave (1847), his Three Years in Europe: Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met (1855), his The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), and his speeches.

  • The University of North Carlina's full text versions of Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide. Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself. With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery. (1849) and Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself (1851).





  • Unit 6: Reform Movements

    Week 11

    Mar 25: Read William McNeill, Plagues and Peoples (photocopy), and the materials on the 1854 Cholera Epidemic in London (photocopy).

    Mar 27: Continue with materials on the 1854 Cholera Epidemic.

    Mar 29: Excursion to the Mutter Museum.

    Week 12

    Apr 1: Read Henry "Box" Brown, from Narrative of Henry Box Brown (photocopy). Have a look on-line at the image of Henry "Box" Brown arriving in Philadelphia in his crate.

    Apr 3: William Wells Brown, St. Domingo: Its Revolutions and Its Patriots (photocopy).

    April 5: On this day, instead of a recitation, we will be meeting with you about your long essays. For this meeting, please bring a one-page prospectus of your essay project and a preliminary bibliography (at least 2 primary and 2-3 secondary sources).