figgyreads 's review for:

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

5.0

informative sad medium-paced

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I have read a lot of books about the Black experience in America, so none of the information provided in this book about the treatment of mentally ill Black folks were treated in our country’s history. Still, I am horrified over these stories. Antonia Hylton has devoted her life’s work to researching Crownsville and its history, through the lens of a person of color and one who has experience mental illness in her own family. A must-read for people who wish to learn from history and advocate for better for us all.