Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix

by Penny Colman

Book Overview

Dorothea Dix was almost forty years old when she discovered that people, especially poor people, with mental illness were "confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens . chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience." Outraged by this knowledge, Dix led a forty-year crusade for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. Year after year, she traveled thousands of miles by stagecoach, boats, horseback, and railroad to investigate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595437141
• ISBN13: 9780595437146
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7