APUSH – Dorothea Dix speaks out on behalf of the Insane (1848)

Posted on January 20, 2015 by pmaienknecht

Antebellum reformer Dorothea Dix addresses the Massachusetts legislature about the poor conditions and treatment of the mentally ill in 1848. Primary source document with a guided question.

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