by Daniel Defoe

The Black Death
Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year provides the reader with a fictionalized eyewitness account of the plague and how it terrorized London in the middle of the seventeenth century. Visit this site to read about the fourteenth century and learn about the first European outbreak of the pestilence that many believed signaled the end of the world. Write a poem or short story based upon what you've learned from this site.