Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

by Antonia Hylton

“All of it. It’s like what if—what if after slavery had ended, there was truly some semblance of reparations, not necessarily the way we look at reparations now, but what if we had just gotten forty acres and a mule? What if we and our farmers had continued to own their land? What if people were able to prosper? What would our culture look like today?