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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
Damnation Island Poor Sick Mad and Criminal in 19thCentury New York
Author: Stacy Horn
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781616205768
ISBN-10: 1616205768
Publication Date: 5/15/2018
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Algonquin Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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