What are some historical events that happened in the book Fever 1793?

's historical novel
takes
place in Philadelphia. As portrayed in the book, Philadelphia was
then the
nation's capital. The narrator of the novel mentions the State House, where
the
Congress then met. Coffeehouses, like the one portrayed in the novel,
were common in
Philadelphia at the time, and they were places where people
could gather to speak about politics
and to exchange ideas. The character of
Eliza in the novel is a freed slave, and Philadelphia
was home to about 2,000
freed slaves at the time. 

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