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"A Dialogue, Between Two Southern Gentlemen And A Negro," Part 1
Well, my boy, you may I listen, and I will tell you. An Asylum is a retreat from the world’s cares, a refuge from sorrows. Like the shadow of a great rock to the wearied traveller it refreshes and prepares for duty on the pilgrimage of life....
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Title: "A Dialogue, Between Two Southern Gentlemen And A Negro," Part 1
From: "A Dialogue, Between Two Southern Gentlemen And A Negro"
Creator: n/a
Date: May 1852
Format: Article
Publication: The Opal
Source: New York State Library
Control no.: 051 O612 1852
Location: vol.2, no.5, pp.151-153
Keywords: African American; Asylums; Civil Liberties & Rights; Confinement; Entertainment, Leisure & Recreation; Government Agencies; Health & Medicine; Identity; Insanity; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; New York; New York State Lunatic Asylum; Psychiatric Disability; Slavery; The Arts
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Mass Media, Culture & The Arts


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- "A Dialogue, Between Two Southern Gentlemen And A Negro," Part 1 (doc)
- "A Dialogue, Between Two Southern Gentlemen And A Negro," Part 2 (doc)