Lecture by Anne Bardaglio, University of Maine at Augusta and Orono
Comment: C. Ian Stevenson, Boston University
Thursday, September 24
5:00 PM (ET)
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In June 1912, the State of Maine forcibly evicted a multiracial community from Malaga Island, which lies just off the coast of Phippsburg. The community was dismantled, residents’ homes were burned, and eight islanders were institutionalized in the Maine Home for the Feebleminded. Drawing on a survey of more than a hundred newspaper articles published between 1860–915, this chapter traces how pastoral and environmental ideals converged with eugenic ideology to justify the violent reshaping of both the space of Malaga Island and the lives of its residents.
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