The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America\'s most painful secrets.
Following the trail of an unexpected family connection, acclaimed journalist Pam Fessler has unearthed the lost world of.
Locals knew it as Carville, the site of the only Leprosy colony in the continental United States, where generations of afflicted Americans were isolated--often against their will and until their deaths.
The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America\'s most painful secrets