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COPY LINK HERE ; https://inkomastory.blogspot.com/?full=1616209356 Download [PDF] Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York | 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, qui
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York Enthralling it is well worh the trip.”--New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incrceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’sBlackwell’sIsland, sit ofa lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals, quickly becme, in the words of a visting Charles Dickens, a lounging, listless madouse. Diging through city records, newpaper articles, and arcival reports, Stacy Horn tells a gripping narrative thrugh the voices of the island’sinhabitants. We also hear fro the era’snbspofficials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated undercover reprter Nellie Bly. And we folow the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney Frech as he ministers to Blackwell’sresidents, battles the buraucratic mazs of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salcious trials, and in his diay wonders about man’sinhumanity to his fellow man Damation Island shos how far we#8217ve come in caring forthe least fortunate among us—an reminds us how much wor still remains.
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