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Hardcover Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York Book

ISBN: 1616205768

ISBN13: 9781616205768

Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

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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...

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