Damnation Island Horn Stacy
Damnation Island Horn Stacy "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…
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Damnation Island Horn Stacy
"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 AntarcticaOn a two-mile stretch of land in New York's East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . Then, it was Blackwell's, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. .Today we call it Roosevelt Island.
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