drapetomania

If research like his, was not done to prove things like drapetomania wrong, then society would never had advance.

In addition to identifying drapetomania, Cartwright prescribed a remedy.

Drapetomania, the name given to what was seen at one point in time to be a mental illness that caused black slaves to flee captivity.

He is now most well known for describing a condition he called "drapetomania", or the desire to flee from servitude.

In the United States it was proposed that black slaves who tried to escape were suffering from a mental disorder termed drapetomania.

In describing his theory and cure for drapetomania, Cartwright relied on passages of scripture dealing with slavery.

Today, drapetomania is considered an example of pseudoscience, and part of the edifice of scientific racism.

According to Cartwright, drapetomania is a mental disorder akin to alienation [madness].

Among the various maladies Dr. Cartwright described was "drapetomania" or "the disease causing slaves to run away."

In the 19th century, enslaved black people who escaped from their owners were diagnosed as having drapetomania, a disorder characterized by an irrational desire for freedom.

Cartwright is best known as the inventor of the 'disease' of drapetomania and an outspoken critic of germ theory.

Drapetomania, the original article as printed in The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.

Szasz cited drapetomania as an example of a behavior that many in society did not approve of, being labeled and widely cited as a disease.

One remarkable example of psychiatric diagnosis being used to reinforce cultural bias and oppress dissidence is the diagnosis of drapetomania.

Race was also used to justify the construction of socially specific mental disorders such as drapetomania and dysaesthesia aethiopica-the behavior of uncooperative African slaves.

Cartwright named it drapetomania, from the ancient Greek drapetes for a runaway slave; in other words, here was a disease that "caused Negroes to run away."

In the Southern US, black slaves and abolitionists encountered Drapetomania, a pseudo-scientific diagnosis for why slaves ran away from their masters.

In the 1800's psychiatry pathologized the tendency of slaves to run away and called it "drapetomania", a "disease" which no doubt called for heroic and horrific "therapies".

He also concluded that the slave's chronic tendency to run away was in reality the symptom of yet another African disease, Drapetomania, which he believed would eventually be medically cured.

The diagnosis of drapetomania was also developed in the Southern United States to explain the perceived irrationality of black slaves trying to escape what was thought to be a suitable role.

In 2013 Bedia participated in the collective exhibit Drapetomania: Exposicion Homenaje a Grupo Antillano in Santiago de Cuba.

An extreme example is the invention of drapetomania, a hereditary mental disease said to be prevalent among black slaves in the South, which manifested itself in an irresistible urge to run away from their masters.

It was also believed that when blacks tried to flee captivity, they were suffering from a mental illness called drapetomania, which Samuel A. Cartwright stated to be a consequence of masters who "made themselves too familiar with slaves, treating them as equals".

In the US prior to the American Civil War, physicians such as Samuel A. Cartwright diagnosed some slaves with drapetomania, a mental illness in which the slave possessed an irrational desire for freedom and a tendency to try to escape.

In the film, after the Confederate States of America wins the American Civil War, Cartwright's work forms the basis for the fictional Cartwright Institute for Freedom Illnesses, a medical school incorporating his theory on Drapetomania and other "negro peculiarities".