The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… social weight significant within the colonies and beyond. Of this, the city’s established and aspiring elites were well aware. 2 1 . Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) Cadwalader Collection, ‘Genealogical History of Thomas Willing’, … (August 1773). England remained the epicenter of elite Americans’ social aspirations, but as the colonies moved toward political independence, they sought their own values. In the early years of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress, seated at Philadelphia, discouraged ‘every species of extravagance and dissipation,’ …
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