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Richard Peters,
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Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 1842
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public consideration and sympathy
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Massachusetts
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1843
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Massachusetts state legislature
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Dorothea Dix
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defends
This is a report.
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chained or caged.
Again, inhumane conditions. Imagine one suffering from paranoia, now chained.
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suffering humanity.
These places that were created to “help” failed, and created inhumane living conditions.
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poor
In this era, asylums were used more as a dumping ground for those who did not fit societies standards. Many never saw the outside world after being admitted.
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herself
I find it very interesting and actually motivating that she began research into mental illness while dealing with her own mental.
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