Season 2, Episode 3 - Arch Street Prison, the Cholera Epidemic of 1832 and Vagrancy

Philly People, Now Deceased: A History Podcast

English - April 30, 2020 22:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
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Today we’re talking about a place that is gone gone gone, not a person. Join history Professor Kristen O-Brassill-Kulfan, expert on poverty and prisons in the early American republic, and Candace McKinley, Lead Organizer for the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, as we discuss the prison you didn’t know existed - Arch Street Prison, Vagrancy, and the Cholera Epidemic of 1832.

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