Damnation Island : poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York
"It's now known as New York City's Roosevelt Island. Originally called Blackwell's Island, it housed a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse and almshouse in the 19th century. This book re-creates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what con...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
2018
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