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    In the tradition of? The Immortal Life of?Henrietta?Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation?s last segregated asylums, that? New York Times ?bestselling author Clint Smith describes as ?a book that left me breathless.?On a cold day in March of?1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland.?Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state?s Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum.?In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County,

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