In August of 1930, Ethel Benson was institutionalized into the Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded and never returned home. She was about 20 years old, Black and illiterate. Her great sin, in the ...

In late September 2021, I received an email about a woman named Ethel Benson. Ethel, her granddaughter wrote to me, was a young Black woman who was sent to Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded, now ...

In the 17th century, life along what would become the Delaware coast included European families working alongside enslaved Africans to farm the land and survive a rugged pioneer life. The recent ...

States like California, North Carolina and Virginia often take the focus due to the sheer number of procedures, even though Delaware’s rate of sterilization regularly outpaced them. Delaware has never ...