4. Asylums were a place where people can admit themselves to a mental hospital voluntarily. People would name the patient's “lunatics¨ Colonists said that the lunatics were possessed by the devil and they were removed from society and locked away. They were grouped into two all-encompassing categories: Mania and Melancholy. Some medical procedures involved submerging patients in ice baths until they lost consciousness or doing a massive shock to the brain. Eugenics is the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.
5. The black prisoners would have to work in cotton fields and also have to grow vegetables. And blacks, hispanics, and native americans were treated
5. The black prisoners would have to work in cotton fields and also have to grow vegetables. And blacks, hispanics, and native americans were treated