9781616209353-1616209356-Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

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

ISBN-13: 9781616209353
ISBN-10: 1616209356
Edition: Reprint
Author: Stacy Horn
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781616209353
ISBN-10: 1616209356
Edition: Reprint
Author: Stacy Horn
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback 320 pages

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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York (ISBN-13: 9781616209353 and ISBN-10: 1616209356), written by authors Stacy Horn, was published by Algonquin Books in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Mental Health (History, Psychology & Counseling, State & Local, United States History, History, Psychology, Poverty, Social Sciences, Criminology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Mental Health books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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"Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” --New York Journal of Books
Conceived 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 number of hospitals, quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, "a lounging, listless madhouse." Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Stacy Horn tells a gripping narrative through the voices of the island’s inhabitants. We also hear from the era’s officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated undercover reporter Nellie Bly. And we follow the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney French as he ministers to Blackwell’s residents, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man’s inhumanity to his fellow man. Damnation Island shows how far we’ve come in caring for the least fortunate among us—and reminds us how much work still remains.
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