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Article: Black Protest: When Freedom and Madness Converge - Essay on the treatment of black Americans sent to Crownsville Hospital in Maryland. Antonia Hylton has written a book, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum.

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness.