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Antonia Hylton

“Their resistance was nothing more than seeking rest and basic human treatment. But they had crossed both physical and invisible color lines, and the punishment for that in the South was not just public shame—it was a portrait of insanity. Crownsville had become a weapon against those who dared oppose the existing order.”

Antonia Hylton, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
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