A Nation at the Brink, Delegates Converge on Philadelphia for a Convention Shrouded in Hope and Fear
Philadelphia, May 1787
Philadelphia, May 1787 – The cobblestone streets of this, the nation’s largest city, are beginning to hum with an anxious energy. Carriages, mud-spattered from arduous journeys, deposit men of note and influence at taverns like the Indian Queen. They arrive bearing not just their luggage, but the weighty expectations of a young republic teetering on the…