THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME CXxIx —_ The Historical Society of, Pennsylvania 1300 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19107 2005 CONTENTS ARTICLES The Streets of Philadelphia: Crowds, Congress, and the Political Culture of Revolution, 1774-1783 Benjamin H. Irvin Delivering the Goods: The Country Storekeeper and Inland Commerce in the Mid-Atlantic Diane Wenger “The Negro Excursions”: Recreational Outings among Philadelphia African Americans, 1876-1926 Brian E. Alnutt Relying on the “Saucy” Men of the Backcountry: Middlemen and the Fur Trade in Pennsylvania Judith Ridner The Wages of Blackness: African American Workers and the Meanings of Race during Philadelphia’s 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic Jacquelyn C. Miller 1 “nursery for soldiers to the whole world”: Colonel James Prevost and the Foreign Protestant Military Migration of the Mid-Eighteenth Century Alexander Campbell Taxation and Representation: Pennsylvania Bachelors and the American Revolution John Gilbert McCurdy The President’s House Revisited Edward Lawler Jr. Six Houses for the President Damie Stillman Interpreting the Dimensions of Daily Life for the Slaves Living at the President’s House and at Mount Vernon Dennis J. Pogue History, Commemoration, and an Interdisciplinary Approach to Interpreting the President's House Site Doris Devine Fanelli 445 The “Black” Eye on George Washington’s “White’ House” Michael Coard 461 Questioning the Answers: Modernizing Public History to Serve the Citizens Sharon Ann Holt 473 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS A Pennsylvania Judge Views the Rebellion: The Civil War Letters of George Washington Woodward Jonathan W. White 195 Rescuing African American Kidnapping Victims in Philadelphia as Documented in the Joseph Watson Papers at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Eric Ledell Smith 317 EDITORIALS Tamara Gaskell Miller 369 BOOK REVIEWS 105, 227, 347, 483 7 se INDEX Frances S. Lennie 493