Author and award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton wanted to better understand the damage that’s been done to Black people through psychology. Her curiosity led her to study the subject ten years ago.
In her research, she discovered Crownsville Hospital, a segregated mental asylum in Maryland, VA. It was built in 1911 by the same Black men who would eventually become patients.
The facility closed 20 years ago, but it’s now the focus of Hylton’s new book, “Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum.”
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