![]() A landmark history of a single insane asylum at Milledgeville, Georgia, A Peculiar Inheritance reveals how modern-day American psychiatry was forged in the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, when African Americans carrying “no histories” entered from Freedmen’s Bureau Hospitals and home counties wracked with Klan terror. unbelievable this side of Dante’s Inferno.” Georgia’s state hospital was at the center of psychiatric practice and the forefront of psychiatric thought throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America-centuries during which the South invented, fought to defend, and then worked to replace the most developed slave culture since the Roman Empire. In April, 1949, Ebony magazine reported that for black patients, “the situation approaches Nazi concentration camp standards. To this day, it is the site of the largest graveyard of disabled and mentally ill people in the world. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over ten thousand patients. In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded on land taken from the Cherokee nation in the then-State capitol of Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys.” -Berenice in The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers A scathing and original look at the racist origins of the field of modern psychiatry, told through the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world, by the prize-winning author of Memoir of a Race Traitor After a decade of research, Mab Segrest, whose Memoir of a Race Traitor forever changed the way we think about race in America, turns sanity itself inside-out in a stunning book that will become an instant classic. ![]() ![]() Book excerpt: “Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. This book was released on with total page pages. Book Synopsis Administrations of Lunacy by : Mab Segrestĭownload or read book Administrations of Lunacy written by Mab Segrest and published by The New Press. ![]()
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