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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell’s Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would send its insane, indigent, sick, and criminal. Told through the gripping voices of Blackwell’s inhabitants, as well as the period’s city officials, reformers

Title : Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York
Author : Stacy Horn
Language : en
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Uploaded : Apr 03, 2021

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