How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead'

October 31, 2018
Engraving from a series of images entitled "THE GREAT YELLOW FEVER SCOURGE — INCIDENTS OF ITS HORRORS IN THE MOST FATAL DISTRICT OF THE SOUTHERN STATES."

Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname, "Necropolis." The gruesome disease killed thousands, scapegoated immigrants and upheld white supremacy.

(Image credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)



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