Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horn

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

Stacy Horn

284 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad slow-paced
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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,...

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