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Raising Philadelphia: The Making of America's First Great City, 1750-1775
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A wealth of stories showing why Philadelphia was America’s first great city in the years before the Revolution.
Riots and revolutions. Relationships and rivalries. Freedom and enslavement.
The generation of Philadelphians prior to the American Revolution propelled the meteoric rise of the city into the thriving cultural heart of Colonial America. This is the dramatic story of Philadelphia’s ascension over the course of the final decades of colonial America, detailing along the way the lives o...
Riots and revolutions. Relationships and rivalries. Freedom and enslavement.
The generation of Philadelphians prior to the American Revolution propelled the meteoric rise of the city into the thriving cultural heart of Colonial America. This is the dramatic story of Philadelphia’s ascension over the course of the final decades of colonial America, detailing along the way the lives o...