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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled--hidden away with their "shameful" disease. Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the Mississippi River curls around an old plantation thick with trees, with a stately white manor house at its heart. Locals knew it as Carville--the site of the only leprosarium in the continental United States from 1894 until 1999, where generations...
