Colored Insane : Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Louis, Diana Martha.

Series:

Race, Inequality, and Health Series

Race, Inequality, and Health Series ; v.12

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Martha Louis explores Black experiences and views of mental disability in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the lives and struggles of the "colored insane.".

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 ANTEBELLUM PSYCHIATRIC AND MEDICAL DISCOURSES ON THE BLACK BODYMIND

2 MENTAL DISABILITY AND THE INTELLECTUAL THOUGHT OF JAMES McCUNE SMITH

3 PSYCHOLOGICAL COSTS OF BLACK WOMENS ENSLAVEMENT IN HARRIET JACOBSS INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL (1861)

4 HARRIET TUBMAN AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONCEPTIONS OF MENTAL DISABILITY

5 BLACK WOMENS PSYCHIATRIC INCARCERATION AT GEORGIA LUNATIC ASYLUM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

6 CHARLES CHESNUTT AND MENTAL DISABILITY IN THE AGE OF BLACK FREEDOM

CODA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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ISBN:

0-231-55960-7

OCLC:

1541769844