Interview with Author, Robert Watson | America's First Plague | Between The Covers Summer Series

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  • TitleInterview with Author, Robert Watson | America's First Plague | Between The Covers Summer Series
    Media name/outletSouth Florida PBS
    Duration/Length/Size8:52
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    Date7/6/23
    DescriptionThe year: 1793. The place: young America from Baltimore to Boston but especially in Philadelphia. For 3 long months yellow fever, carried by mosquitoes let loose from a ship from Africa, ravaged the eastern seaboard.

    Author, Robert Watson talks about his new book that offers the definitive telling of this long-forgotten crisis, capturing the wave of fear that swept across the fledgling republic, and the numerous unintended but far-reaching consequences.
    Producer/AuthorAnne Bocock
    URLhttps://youtu.be/FWKhdkUcn-c?feature=shared
    PersonsRobert P. Watson