Black History as a Weapon of Intellectual and Political Struggle

In 1974 Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, both leaders of Philadelphia's Black community these words were found in the black history documents were produced by African American. These self educated men wrote a historical and sociological treatise to counter published stereotypes of Blacks as disease-free exploiters of white Yellow Fever victims in that city's malaria epidemic of 1793. A widely read publication by whites asserted that Blacks were immune to Yellow Fever and guilty of grossly overcharging sick and dying whites for services rendered. By using what we now call history, sociology and statistics, these two men were brilliantly demolished
the immunity stereotype and the money gouging allegations.