Drapetomania taught white society that Black resistance was a symptom, not a truth. That the longing for liberation was irrational. That survival instincts were symptoms of dysfunction.

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For starters there is the infamous Tuskegee Experiment, along with a disease Dr. Samuel Cartwright called drapetomania – a psychiatric disorder exhibited by enslaved Blacks who attempted to flee ...

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Up until the 1960s, psychiatrists recognized drapetomania and dysaethesia aethiopia — defined in the 1850s as the desire for freedom among enslaved people — as a mental illness (which was ...

She is the author of the novel “Пътуване по посока на сянката (Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow)”, two collections of short stories, and four books of poetry, including “Notes of the Phantom ...

Discussing the history of drapetomania and pseudoscientific diagnoses with The New York Times in 2000, Harvard psychiatry professor Alvin Poussaint said: “Cartwright saw slavery as normative.

What if we studied human psychology through a historical lens? Wikipedia lists 36 obsolete psychological categories. These include drapetomania, a supposed mental disorder that led enslaved African ...

Black women like Angel Reese and Angela Bassett are held to unfair standards, called unprofessional, and treated disrespectfully for their public actions.

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