Preface and Acknowledgments The Genesis of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad The Kingdom of Ireland in 1832 America in 1832 The Irish in Penn's Woods The Story of Duffy's Cut "A Chastisement for the Sins of the People": Cholera in Pennsylvania, 1832 Duffy's Cut in Historical Memory The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut Duffy's Cut Project: A Chronicle A Virtual Tour of Duffy's Cut Appendix Notes Bibliography Index Photo Sections
Details the cover-up of one of the worst labor tragedies in American history-the death (and probable murder) of 57 Irish immigrant workers in a cholera-stricken railroad camp in 1832.
William E. Watson is associate professor and chair of history at Immaculata College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Tricolor and Crescent (Praeger, 2003) and The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union (Greenwood, 1998). J. Francis Watson has a PhD in historical theology and is a Lutheran clergyman and ecclesiastical archivist in New Jersey. His articles on religious history have appeared in various journals. John H. Ahtes III is assistant professor of history, Immaculata College. He has published in Irish Review. Earl H. Schandelmeier III received his BA in history from Immaculata University, where he served as history department assistant. He teaches history in Maryland. He worked for many years in business, including as a consultant for Toyota Motor Production Systems, and also as an operations manager.
In the summer of 1832, Irish immigrant Philip Duffy contracted 57
of his newly arrived countrymen to lay a stretch of railroad some
30 miles west of Philadelphia. Within two months, all were dead,
struck down in the global cholera pandemic that hit Philadelphia
the same time they did. Four historians, three at Immaculata
College in Pennsylvania, tell the story, putting into the context
of immigration, industrialization, and epidemiology. They draw on
surviving archival and archaeological evidence.
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