Review: Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The author examines how, in the early 1900s, patients were forced to build their own asylum and how racism prescribed cruelty at Crownsville. Maryland's notorious facility made beatings and isolation the norm.