Black female street vendors such as the ones depicted in both pictures were an important part of Philadelphia's black economy. A significant number of free blacks, particularly those without ...

Those sites, among others that told the story of York’s Black community, are now long gone, many paved over ... covers two neighborhoods – the area around North Duke and East Philadelphia ...

click image for close-up In a widely-read pamphlet distributed on the heels of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic, Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey accused the black community of profiteering from ...