When the first patients - 12 of them - arrived at Maryland's Hospital for the Negro Insane in 1911, the asylum had yet to be built."It would be the first and only asylum in the state, and likely the nation, to force its patients to build their own hospital from the ground up," Antonia Hylton writes
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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.
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