"Taken to the Asylum"

A Thursday, June 9, 1892 Florence Herald report that local black resident Sim Casey was escorted to the Bryce Insane Asylum at Tuscaloosa the day before. Casey was long-known to be mentally unstable by locals however he was considered harmless and his "idiosyncrasies" of believing him...

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Format: Electronic
Published: Project Say Something: The Shoals Black History Collection
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Online Access:https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/1076