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Author(s):	Stacy Horn

Date:	2018-05-15	Format:	True PDF	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1616205768
Pages:	304	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:	9781616205768
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“A riveting character-driven dive into 19th-century New York and the extraordinary history of Blackwell’s Island.” —Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica 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 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 remainsOn a two-mile stretch of land in New Yorks East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding

Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then, it was Blackwells, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world ever seen, Blackwells Island quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, a lounging, listless madhouse.

In the first contemporary investigative account of Blackwells, Stacy Horn tells this chilling narrative through the gripping voices of the islands inhabitants, as well as the periods 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 Blackwells 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 mans inhumanity to man. In Damnation Island, Stacy Horn shows us how far weve come in caring for the least fortunate among usand reminds us how much work still remains.

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