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EPISODE · Feb 8, 2024 · 11 MIN

"Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum" by Antonia Hylton

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For her first book, Antonia Hylton, a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist, unearthed the 93-year-old history of a segregated asylum in Maryland.

For her first book, Antonia Hylton, a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist, unearthed the 93-year-old history of a segregated asylum in Maryland.

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