06/17/2026
JUNETEENTH PART 3 🤎🌿🌿🌿
JUNE IS MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH 💜
AFTER JUNE 19, 1865 ⚫️🔴🟢
CROWNSVILLE STATE HOSPITAL
Crownsville, MD
Known as The Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland.
It was operated in Crownsville, MD from 1911 to 2004.
It was infamous for being one of the country's last segregated mental assylums, where underfunded, overcrowded, conditions, and systematic neglect defined the tragic reality for thousands of Black patients. [Wikipedia]
NOTES & FACTS TO PONDER;
■ It was a MENTAL HOSPITAL FOR FREED SLAVES.
This was AFTER JUNE 19, 1865.
■ MENTAL ILLNESS WENT ON A RISE after the freedom of the enslaved. After being "freed" they were left to deal with trauma from being abused, mistreated, and being oppressed & enslaved.
■ Crownsville State Hospital started by whyte men from the Jim Crow era who wanted to have a place for the mentally ill enslaved but they didn't want to pay for it being built. They gathered 12 BLACK MEN, who were dealing with mental illness themselves, & made them go out clear the land, and build the hospital and then live in it. 12 BLACK MENTALLY ILL MEN built the Crownsville State Hospital.
■ It was said that the enslaved people were more "sane" as slaves than they were as "freed" men & women.
■ The outside of the mental assylum was 500 acres of land with to***co fields, gardens, & cattle fields. The former enslaved people, the Black patients, tended to these fields as if they were still "enslaved".
■ The inside of the facility had no beds, no decency, no kindness to it whatsoever.
■ The Black patients were treated as a number & used as guinea pigs for scientific purposes. After they died, they were buried in graves only marked with numbers .
■ 1700 bodies were buried on the grounds of this facility Some of the bodies went missing. They were sold to be "studied".
■ Crownsville State Hospital closed in 2004.
❤️ A community of people are working on getting names put on the unmarked graves. Every year there is a ceremony held to honor the memory of the lives that were buried on the grounds. The annual celebration is called "Say My Name."
I gathered this information from a documentary that I watched called "Juneteenth: The Story of Unity & Reconciliation (YouTube) 🟥
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JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION JESUP 2026🖤❤️💚
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