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

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

Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell’s Island. There, over the next hundred years, …

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