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Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix
Breaking the Chains The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix
Author: Penny Colman
Dorothea Dix was almost forty years old when she discovered that people, especially poor people, with mental illness were ?confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens ? chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.? Outraged by this knowledge, Dix led a forty-year crusade for the humane treatment of people with mental illnes...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780595437146
ISBN-10: 0595437141
Publication Date: 3/29/2007
Pages: 145
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: ASJA Press
Book Type: Paperback
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