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Death Census of Slaves & Whites in Savannah as RTes

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AN OFFICIAL REGISTER of the DEATHS Which Occurred Among the WHITE POPULATION in the City of SAVANNAH ... also the Aggregate Amount of Deaths Among THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, Savannah, Dec. 1820. The death census is presented in columns, Date of Burial, Name, Age, Disease and totals 695 and an additional "about two hundred People of Colour." Savannah suffered two major catastrophes in 1820, the yellow fever epidemic and a terrible fire. In January a fire burned approximately 463 buildings. In April, still attempting to recover from the fire, a yellow fever epidemic broke out. By this time, about 6000 of the 7528 people in Savannah had evacuated the city. At the end of the year, when most of the yellow fever was gone, the fire and fever death tolls were up to 695. Gathered signatures laid in original printed wrappers, old stab holes in left margin. Wrappers backed with archival tissue, small chip along top edge, minor edge wear, internally clean, untrimmed, 24pp.

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