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- Title
"That Charity which begins at Home": Ethnic Societies and Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.
- Authors
SULLIVAN, AARON
- Abstract
The article discusses poor relief and ethnic benevolent societies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It focuses on the St. Andrew's Society for Scottish immigrants, the Society of the Sons of St. George for English immigrants, the Hibernian Society for Irish immigrants, and the Welsh Society for Welsh immigrants. The author explores the inception of these organizations as social and fraternal clubs, their charters and constitutions, and their apolitical nature. Considerations for receiving aid are examined, including moral character and generational distance from immigration. Philadelphia's public poor relief institutions, including the Almshouse and the Bettering House, are also discussed.
- Subjects
PHILADELPHIA (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States; CHARITIES; FRATERNAL organizations; HISTORY of societies; HISTORY of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; SOCIAL conditions of ethnic groups; SERVICES for immigrants; ALMSHOUSES; UNITED States emigration &; immigration; HISTORY
- Publication
Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography, 2010, Vol 134, Issue 4, p305
- ISSN
0031-4587
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5215/pennmaghistbio.134.4.0305