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[felis_ultharus]

I posted another entry on my historical blog, this one about the five men being held at the Provincial Penitentiary at Kingston between 1841 and 1871.

I'm particularly proud of this section, because of all the research involved. I worry about the personal note tacked on at the end, and considered deleting it several times, but I felt it had to be there.

I'm going to Ottawa Pride today with the NDP, which should be fun ^_^

Comments

[sugar-spun.livejournal.com]

I thought the note at the end was very beautiful.

It's strange, isn't it, that we can feel so strongly for people who are so far beyond knowing about it? My research into mental illness regularly has me in fits of rage at the way they were treated, although there's no one left from the nineteenth century system for me to rage at.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

It is strange. But I really do feel that that outrage needs to be felt.