Philadelphia stories : America´s literature of race and freedom / Samuel Otter.

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Mathew Carey, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the color of fever -- Ministers and criminals: Richard Allen, John Joyce, and Peter Matthias -- Benjamin Rush´s heroic interventions -- Mathew Carey´s fugitive Philadelphians -- Charles Brockden Brown´s experiments in character -- Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and the irrepressible teague -- Edward W. Clay´s ´Life in Philadelphia´ -- ´The rage for profiles´: silhouettes at Peale´s Museum -- Philadelphia metempsychosis in Robert Montgomery Bird´s Sheppard Lee -- The peculiar position of our people -- William Whipper and debates in the black conventions -- Disfranchisement and appeal -- Joseph Willson´s higher classes of colored society in Philadelphia -- ´Doomed to destruction´: the history of Pennsylvania hall -- The portraiture of the city of Philadelphia, and Henry James´s American scene the mysteries of the city: George Lippard, Edgar Allan Poe -- The fiction of riot: George Lippard, John Beauchamp Jones -- The condition of the free people of color -- The struggle over ´Philadelphia´: Mary Howard Schoolcraft, Sara Josepha -- Hale, Martin Robison Delany, William Whipper and James McCune Smith -- Whipper Frank J. Webb´s the garies and their friends ´A rather curious protest´ -- Still life in Georgia -- History and farce -- Parlor and riot -- Philadelphia vanitas -- The social experiment in Herman Melville´s Benito Cereno.