Drapetomania quotes
In the nineteenth century, … official Western medicine recognized drapetomania, the tendency of slaves to run away from their owners, as a disease. … With hindsight, d
Drapetomania (hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity)
Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans
Samuel Adolphus Cartwright (“the most prominent physician, surgeon, and medical scientist in antebellum Mississippi”)
Samuel Adolphus Cartwright (November 3, 1793 – May 2, 1863) was an American physician who practiced in Mississippi and Louisiana in the antebellum&n