Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum
Hylton, Antonia2024
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On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. 'Madness' transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum as author Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Maryland.
Main title:
Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum / Antonia Hylton.
Author:
Hylton, Antonia, author
Imprint:
London : Footnote Press, 2024.
Collation:
288 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781804441046 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
362.210975
Language:
English
Subject:
Crownsville State Hospital -- HistoryPsychiatric hospitals -- Maryland -- Crownsville -- HistoryAfrican Americans -- Mental health services -- Maryland -- Crownsville -- HistoryMentally ill -- Abuse of -- Maryland -- Crownsville -- HistoryRacism in medicine -- Maryland -- Crownsville -- HistoryHealth and Wellbeing
BRN:
2673952
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