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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
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Using original research, photos, interviews, primary sources and newspaper records, Madness is a deep look into the hidden Black history around Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums. This is a fascinating and necessary history told alongside a moving personal narrative.
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation’s last segregated asylums.
"A book that left me breathless." —Clint Smith, New York Times bestselling author of How The Word Is Passed
"Fascinating." —The New York Times
For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers through the ninety-three-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated a...
"A book that left me breathless." —Clint Smith, New York Times bestselling author of How The Word Is Passed
"Fascinating." —The New York Times
For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers through the ninety-three-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated a...
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