In “Plum Bun,” Jessie Redmon Fauset’s book published in the United States in 1929, Angela Murray is a young Black woman who can pass for white and she moves to New York City in the 1920s to become an artist. Which city did Angela leave to come to New York?

From the book’s page on the Penguin Random House website:

Growing up in a Black middle-class Philadelphia neighborhood, Angela has always dreamed of becoming a painter. But the profession is largely reserved for white society. So when Angela’s parents prematurely pass away, she moves to roaring New York City, where she befriends elite artists and presents herself as a white woman. While her sister Virginia’s complexion resembles that of their father’s, Angela’s is lighter, like her mother’s, and passing, she believes, is the only way she’ll ever achieve success. Virginia, meanwhile, refuses to bow to racist pressures, and stays in Philadelphia to embrace her heritage with pride.