Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix by Penny Colman

Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix

Penny Colman

148 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced
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Dorothea Dix was almost forty years old when she discovered that people, especially poor people, with mental illness were "confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens . chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience." Outraged b...

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