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Horn, Stacy.
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French, William Glenney, 1814-1895.
Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century -- History.
Mental illness -- Treatment -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century -- History.
Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) -- 19th century -- History.
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Horn, Stacy.
French, William Glenney, 1814-1895.
Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century -- History.
Mental illness -- Treatment -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century -- History.
Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) -- 19th century -- History.
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Damnation
Island
: poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century
New
York
/ Stacy Horn.
by
Horn, Stacy.
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
Call #:
362.2109 H813d
Subjects
French, William Glenney, 1814-1895.
Psychiatric hospitals
--
New
York
(State)
--
New
York
--
19th
century
--
History
.
Mental illness
--
Treatment
--
New
York
(State)
--
New
York
--
19th
century
--
History
.
Roosevelt
Island
(
New
York
,
N
.Y.)
--
19th
century
--
History
.
ISBN:
9781616205768 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century
New
York
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xii, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
I: The
New
York
City Lunatic Asylum: opened on Blackwell's
Island
1839, to accommodate
New
York
City's lunatic poor. Reverend William Glenney French: the Blackwell's
Island
Episcopal missionary from 1872 to 1895 ; Sister Mary Stanislaus: committed to the Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's
Island
August 3, 1872, Diagnosis monomania ; Sister Mary Stanislaus is admitted into the Asylum ; the trial of Sister Mary ; Suicide, murder, and accidental deaths on the rise in the Lunatic Asylum ; Lunacy investigation: December 1880, Metropolitan Hotel,
New
York
City ; Nellie Bly: ten days in a mad house, September 1887
--
II: The workhouse: a penal institution for people convicted of minor crimes, opened on Blackwell's
Island
in 1852.
New
York
City and the unworthy poor ' Rev. William R. Stocking: superintendent of the Blackwell's
Island
Workhouse from 1886 to 1889 ; A workhouse exposé and Lawrence Dunphy: superintendent of the Blackwell's
Island
Workhouse from 1889 to 1896
--
III: the Almshouse: completed in 1848, to house the poor and disabled of
New
York
City. The Almshouse complex, the end of the line for many
--
IV: The hospitals for the poor: in operation beginning 1832, to serve the sick people of
New
York
City, and the inmates of the penitentiary, workhouse, and almshouse. Penitentiary Hospital aka
Island
Hospital aka Charity Hospital aka City Hospital
--
V: The Penitentiary: completed in 1832, for people convicted of more serious crimes, and with sentences generally from three to six months to two years although sometimes more. Adelaide Irving: sentenced to the Penitentiary December 6, 1832 ; William H. Ramscar: the Old Gentlemen's Unsectarian Home, sentenced to the Penitentiary December 23, 1899 ; Reverend Edward Cowley: the Shepherd's Fold, sentenced to the Penitentiary February 20, 1880
--
VI: Separating charity from correction:
New
York
City divides the department in two in 1895. The end of a dangerous conglomerate
--
Epilogue: Blackwell's
Island
after 1895.
Summary:
"On a two-mile stretch of land in
New
York
's East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding ... Today we call it
Roosevelt
Island
. Then, it was Blackwell's, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, Blackwell's
Island
quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, 'a lounging, listless madhouse.' In the first contemporary investigative account of Blackwell's, Stacy Horn tells this chilling narrative through the gripping voices of the
island
's inhabitants, as well as the period's officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated Nellie Bly. Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Horn brings this forgotten
history
alive: there was terrible overcrowding; prisoners were enlisted to care for the insane; punishment was harsh and unfair; and treatment was nonexistent. Throughout the book, we return to the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney French as he ministers to Blackwell's residents, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man's inhumanity to man. In Damnation
Island
, Stacy Horn shows us how far we've come in caring for the least fortunate among us--and reminds us how much work still remains."--Dust jacket.
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