“Drapetomania” is premiering at the We Will Dream Festival, which features productions of three plays by emerging Black playwrights, a staged reading of another drama, ...

In “Drapetomania,” loosely inspired by Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” playwright Schaffer, a Houston native, intertwines the past and present.

Exactly 168 years ago on March 17, 1851, Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, a 58-year-old psychologist and surgeon who practiced in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi after having attended University of Penn ...

DRAPETOMANIA, OR THE DISEASE CAUSING NEGROES TO RUN AWAY. It is unknown to our medical authorities, although its diagnostic symptom, the absconding from service, is well known to our planters and ...

Almost anyone touring the South’s remaining antebellum plantations is immediately impressed by the splendor of these estates and the luxury, albeit quaint and devoid of modern conveniences, that ...

A University of Penn Medical School graduate, Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, who was a psychologist and surgeon in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama publicly announced precisely 172 years ago on ...

A heavy spiked iron collar is a chilling representation of a slave’s desperation. It was a punishment — worn by those who attempted (and failed) to run away. The collar, along with 200 ...

Drapetomania seemed on the verge of becoming a fatal contagion in the summer of 1851, when Cartwright’s articles appeared. Although only a few thousand people, at most, ...

Drapetomania: or, the Narrative of Cyrus Tyler and Abednego Tyler, lovers, by John R Gordon, Team Angelia, RRP£15.99, 502 pages Diriye Osman is author of ‘Fairytales for Lost Children ...