Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horn

Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

Stacy Horn

304 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad slow-paced
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Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” --New York Journal of BooksConceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a numb...

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