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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
medium-paced
5.0
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum is an excellently well researched and succinctly presented history of Crownsville Hospital in Maryland. Located in Anne Arundel County, Crownsville is a small town in a county that was rural for many years and is mostly known for the town of Annapolis. The asylum began as the designated mental hospital for Black people and it did integrate over time, but as this book explains the stigma of racial divides stayed with this hospital and greatly impacted the quality of care that patients received.
If you were a fan of The Woman They Could Not Silence, you will almost certainly enjoy this book although it is more traditional nonfiction, not a narrative and person focused style.
This book covers heavy topics in a respectful and eloquent way. My heart goes out to all of the families who lost loved ones at Crownsville and to the families who don't know.
If you were a fan of The Woman They Could Not Silence, you will almost certainly enjoy this book although it is more traditional nonfiction, not a narrative and person focused style.
This book covers heavy topics in a respectful and eloquent way. My heart goes out to all of the families who lost loved ones at Crownsville and to the families who don't know.