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

by Stacy Horn

Book Overview

"A riveting character-driven dive into 19th-century New York and the extraordinary history of Blackwell's Island."
--Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

On a two-mile stretch of land in New York's East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . .

Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then, it was Blackwell's, site of a lunatic asylum, two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616205768
• ISBN13: 9781616205768
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"