The Catholic University of America Press
  • The Sisters of Charity, the 1832 Cholera Epidemic in Philadelphia and Duffy’s Cut
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The skull of one of the Irish immigrant railroad workers who died in the 1832 cholera epidemic and was buried in the mass grave at Duffy's Cut. This man, excavated in August, 2009, has a cranium that shows signs of perimortem violence.

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