Drapetomania - this "obsession slaves to escape"

Drapetomania - psychiatric diagnosis, conceived and proposed in 1851 by American physician Samuel Cartwright of Louisiana Medical Association, to explain available to the tendency of black slaves to escape from slavery. He explained shoots slaves obsessive desire for freedom. Any slave who tries to run more than two times, was considered insane. As such, drapetomania - an example of "scientific" racism. The term is derived from ancient Greek. δραπέτης (drapetes, «runaway [slave]«) + μανία (mania, «madness»).

The first diagnosis came in an article published in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, in which Dr. Cartwright argued that the tendency of slaves running away from their masters really is treatable health disorder. Cartwright suggested as the most effective treatment procedure spanking. In addition, prescriptive and amputation of toes.

Cartwright described and other disorders «Dysaethesia Aethiopica» to explain the apparent lack of motivation exhibited by many of the slaves, which he also claimed, it could be cured by flogging.

By analogy with drapetomania, in the 19th century, Prussian psychiatrists introduced the diagnosis of "psychopathy Gallic».

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