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TIL: A Yellow Fever Epidemic Killed One in Every Ten Philadelphians in 1793

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Z8QmD TIL that William Whipple, one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, freed his slave after signing it because he believed one cannot simultaneously fight for freedom and hold another person in bondage.
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