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Lunacy and Liberation: Black Crime, Disability, and the Production and Eradication of the Early National Enemy

Lunacy and Liberation: Black Crime, Disability, and the Production and Eradication of the Early... andrea stone Smith College Lunacy and Liberation Black Crime, Disability, and the Production and Eradication of the Early National Enemy Insanity is the saddest and most terrible of all diseases,—the most pitiable and helpless of all the states and forms of human helplessness. And yet it is a condition to which all men are liable, and into which any man may at any time fall with or without premonition. In its relation to crime it presents one of the darkest and most mysterious problems of medical and criminal jurisprudence. — George L. Harrison, Legislation on Insanity: A Collection of All the Lunacy Laws of the States and Territories of the United States to the Year 1883, Inclusive, Philadelphia, 1884 In 1795, a Massachusetts slave named Pomp confessed to having murdered his owner, Captain Charles Furbush, with an axe while the man lay sleeping in his bed. Pomp’s firsthand account of the murder was p - ub lished in a broadside, the Dying Confession of Pomp, A Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Ipswich, on the 6th August, 1795, for Murdering Capt. Charles Furbush, of Andover, Taken from the Mouth of the Prisoner, and Penned by Jonathan Plummer (see fig. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Lunacy and Liberation: Black Crime, Disability, and the Production and Eradication of the Early National Enemy

Stone, Andrea
Early American Literature , Volume 52 (1) – Mar 18, 2017
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andrea stone Smith College Lunacy and Liberation Black Crime, Disability, and the Production and Eradication of the Early National Enemy Insanity is the saddest and most terrible of all diseases,—the most pitiable and helpless of all the states and forms of human helplessness. And yet it is a condition to which all men are liable, and into which any man may at any time fall with or without premonition. In its relation to crime it presents one of the darkest and most mysterious problems of medical and criminal jurisprudence. — George L. Harrison, Legislation on Insanity: A Collection of All the Lunacy Laws of the States and Territories of the United States to the Year 1883, Inclusive, Philadelphia, 1884 In 1795, a Massachusetts slave named Pomp confessed to having murdered his owner, Captain Charles Furbush, with an axe while the man lay sleeping in his bed. Pomp’s firsthand account of the murder was p - ub lished in a broadside, the Dying Confession of Pomp, A Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Ipswich, on the 6th August, 1795, for Murdering Capt. Charles Furbush, of Andover, Taken from the Mouth of the Prisoner, and Penned by Jonathan Plummer (see fig.

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