Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914

by Leonard Smith

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Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until 1914. The exposure of deplorable conditions and flagrant abuses in the public lunatic asylum in Kingston, Jamaica, in the late 1850s exemplified the defective...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1137028629

ISBN13:9781137028624

Release Date:October 2014

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:285 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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