The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled—hidden away with their “shamef

The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled—hidden away with their “shamef

Personal accounts of life in America's last colony for sufferers of Hansen's disease

In 1924 when thirty-two-year-old Edmond Landry kissed his family good-bye and left for the leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, leprosy, now referred to as Hanse

Lying in a hospital bed, José P. Ramirez, Jr. (b. 1948) almost lost everything because of a misunderstood disease. When the health department doctor gave him t