DRAPETOMANIA
DRAPETOMANIA
SCIENTIFIC RACIS:
THE DRAPETOMANIA DIAGNOSIS
DRAPETOMANIA LINKS
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DRAPETOMANIA
Southerners Actually Thought Slaves Escaping Was A Sign Of Mental Illness.
Southern doctors used pseudo-science to explain why slaves tried to escape
while ignoring the fact that maybe they just didn't like being slaves.
Drapetomania
https://allthatsinteresting.com/drapetomania
Drapetomania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
Drapetomania
https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
DRAPETOMANIA:
CURED BY WHIPPING THE
DEVIL OUT THE NEGRO RACE
https://blackthen.com/drapetomania-cured-by-whipping-the-devil-out-the-negro-race/
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SCIENTIFIC
RACISM:
THE
DRAPETOMANIA
DIAGNOSIS
American physician Dr. Samuel Cartwright (1793 – 1863) observed black
slaves who fled from captivity and saw an illness. In 1851 he named
the illness, “Drapetomania or the “disease causing Negroes to flee”.
He used this diagnosis to explain that black slaves did not really
want freedom and that if they did try to escape, they were actually
“ill”. Cartwright suggested that the cause of Drapetomania was slave
masters treating their slaves in too humane of a manner.
He also suggested the illness was further caused by slaves perceiving
themselves to be individuals of worth. For Cartwright, the slave’s
desire for freedom was an illness and Cartwright felt that he had the
cure.
To cure Drapetomania, he recommended “whipping the devil out of them”
until slaves became submissive again. “Submissive” was the primary
state to which he felt they belonged. Another remedy suggested by
Cartwright was having the big toe from both feet severed. He believed
that these remedies would cure the disease of wanting to be free.
Cartwright believed that enslaved individuals could not and should not
rise above their enslaved state. He used the bible to support his
assertions.
Scientific Racism:
The Drapetomania Diagnosis
https://blackmail4u.com/2015/10/27/scientific-racism-the-drapetomania-diagnosis/
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DRAPETOMANIA
LINKS
An Early History
African American
Mental Health
https://academic.udayton.edu/health/01status/mental01.htm
Drapetomania
https://www.watchtheyard.com/history/drapetomania-dysaesthesia-aethiopica/
Drapetomania
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095730308
Drapetomania
http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/multiculturalpsychology/n84.xml
Drapetomania
https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/question/2005/november.htm
Drapetomania
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9dc055h5
Drapetomania
https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/drapetomania-compliant-blacks-sane-resisting-blacks-insane/article_0087a2d0-1acb-5364-870c-1205212e0a13.html
DRAPETOMANIA
A Disease Called Freedom
https://web.archive.org/web/20090215004923/http://www.broward.org/library/bienes/lii13000.htm
Running Away from Drapetomania
https://www.academia.edu/37189475/_Running_Away_from_Drapetomania_Samuel_A_Cartwright_Medicine_and_Race_in_the_Antebellum_South_The_Journal_of_Southern_History_August_2018
Southerners Actually Thought
Slaves Escaping Was A Sign
Of Mental Illness
https://allthatsinteresting.com/drapetomania
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400
YEARS OF
INEQUALITY
http://www.400yearsofinequality.org/
Celebrating
African American
Culture & History
Black History Month
http://guides.hmcpl.org/c.php?g=790427&p=5657381
Racial Equity
Resource Guide
http://www.racialequityresourceguide.org/organizations/organizations/sectionFilter/Racial%20Healing
Understanding
Prejudice
https://secure.understandingprejudice.org/
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Equal Justice
Initiative
https://eji.org/
The Collective
Black People Movement
(CBPM)
http://cbpm.org/index.html
TRIP DOWN
MEMORY LANE
https://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/
A Gathering
of Readers
https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~gathread/index.html
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Malawi
Project
http://www.malawiproject.org/
Afro Kids
http://www.afrokids.com/
THE FREEMAN
INSTITUTE
http://www.freemaninstitute.com/
Africa
Resource
http://www.africaresource.com/
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Real History
World Wide
http://www.realhistoryww.com/
Quatr.us
http://quatr.us/
African-American
Resources
http://www.ushistory.org/more/african-american.htm
African American
Studies Library
Research Guide
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/aframer.htm
African Music
Encyclopedia
http://africanmusic.org/
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AFROPEDEA
http://www.afropedia.org
World Afropedia
http://worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Main_Page
African
Indigenous Science
and Knowledge Systems
http://www.africahistory.net/
Natives Wiki
http://tribalspedia.wikia.com/wiki/Natives_Wiki
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Islamic Wiki
http://islam.wikia.com/
Sexism
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/
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