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"I must confine myself to few examples,but am ready to furnish other and more complete details,if required.If my pictures are displeasing,coarse,and severe,my subjects must be recollected,offer no tranquil,refined,or composing features.The condition of human beings,reduced to the extremest states of degradation and misery,cannot be exhibited in softened language,or adorn a polished page.I proceed,gentlemen,briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons,confined within this Commonwealth,in cages,closets,cellars,stalls,pens! Chained,naked,beaten with rods,and lashed into obedience."
Dorothea Dix,1843
-Many reforms of the antebellum period were caused by


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