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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC

History magazine.

In March 1911, 12 black men were brought to a forest in Maryland. Under supervision,

they cleared land and laid foundations for what would become the Crownsville Hospital,

a segregated mental asylum for black patients.

The 12 men would become the hospital's first inmates.

Today, Antonia Hilton, the author of a new book on the history of Crownsville Hospital,

joins us to discuss the people who were treated there, and the staff who battled to secure better treatment for their

charges.

Speaking to Eleanor Evans, she reveals what the hospital can tell us about the USA's history

of racial integration and civil rights.

We're talking today about a book that's the product

of a decade of research, and at its center is the 93-year history of Crownsville State Hospital

in Maryland in the United States of America. Antonia, thank you so much for joining me. And can we

start with an introduction from you to Crownsville and what brought you to it?

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