Drapetomania
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drapetomania-177-12083077
title:
Drapetomania
text:
Drapetomania was a proposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity. This hypothesis was based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape. Cartwright specifically cited the tendency of slaves to flee the plantations that held them. Since slaves happy with their condition would not want to le
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Purported mental illness of slaves
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
date created:
2005-04-21T04:00:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T16:09:27Z
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