Win a Copy of "Damnation Island" by Stacy Horn
About "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th Century New York"
Damnation Island is a bleak yet gripping look at life on Blackwell Island in the 19th century. The island housed NYC’s poor, insane, and criminal in close proximity. The facilities often used incarcerated inmates to act as nurse to the island’s most vulnerable.
Horn interweaves horrendous stories of mistreatment and misdiagnoses with the valiant efforts of activists and journalists such as Nellie Bly. This is a macabre depiction of the realities of 19th century institutional life in NYC.
Reviewed for you by Karen S., Materials Management Librarian.
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