Madness race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of 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 twelve patients of the...
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New York, NY :
Legacy Lit,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Part One-Breaking ground. A negro asylum
- All the superintendent's men
- The sea, the farm, and the forest
- What could drive a Black person mad?
- The architecture of injustice
- Part Two-Fear and fury. Cousin Maynard
- Black men are escaping
- A burning house
- A bus ride to Rosewood
- Part Three-The promise of integration. Love and broken promises
- Out of sight, out of mind
- Medical and surgical
- Nurse Faye and Sonia King
- Part Four-Black power and pathology. Screaming at the sky
- The curious case of the Elkton three
- Sympathy for me, but not thee
- Part Five-Where have all the patients gone? In the balance
- Irredeemable or incurable
- The fire
- Closing Crownsville
- Epilogue: But by the grace of God.
