'In the decades following the prohibition of slavery, the United States found another way to use psychology to control Black Americans — and squeeze out more free labor. As detailed in the journalist Antonia Hylton’s fascinating “Madness,” the “feeble-minded” Blacks were rounded up and placed in asylums where they were put to work as indentured servants.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/books/review/madness-antonia-hylton.html