Charles Dickens, a man who’s ideal vacation consisted of visiting insane asylums and prisons, claimed seeing the Eastern State Pen and Niagara Falls were his two reasons for coming to the US in 1842. It was all fun and games until around 1900.Al Capone’svisit lasting from 1929-1930 cre...
dissidents, people who argue against the state, are often determined to be mentally ill and thrown in asylums. Blacks in the United States who tried to escape from slavery were described as having a mental illness. Why would they want to do so unless they were mentally ill?