She convinced Rhode Island millionaire Cyrus Butler to donate thirty thousand dollars to her cause and was invited by Thomas G. Hazard to investigate the Little Compton poorhouse, where that Abram Simmons, a madman, had been confined to a cage for thirty years.
While suffering from depression, this former student of Unitarian reformer William Ellery Channing spent a year in England with a Quaker family, the Rathbones, from whom she learned about institutions like the York Retreat. She convinced Rhode Island millionaire Cyrus Butler to donate thirty thousand dollars to her cause and was invited by Thomas G. Hazard to investigate the Little Compton poorhouse, where that Abram Simmons, a madman, had been confined to a cage for thirty years. For ten points, identify this social activist of the mid 19th century who advocated reforms of prisons and insane asylums.
While suffering from depression, this former student of Unitarian reformer William Ellery Channing spent a year in England with a Quaker family, the Rathbones, from whom she learned about institutions like the York Retreat.
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