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Joel Bervell, MD on Instagram: "In 1851, Dr. Samuel Cartwright reported on the discovery of “Drapetomania.” He described this as a “curable mental disease” that gave enslaved people the urge to flee bondage and seek freedom. Cartwright also used the spirometer and quantified race as a key differentiator in lung capacity, a false belief that permeates in medicine today. Confronting medicine’s racist past is necessary to understand how it impacts us today. #hiddenmedicalhistory #medicalhistory #fa
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Part 6: They called the desire for freedom a mental illness. Look up Drapetomania. In 1851, Samuel A. Cartwright claimed enslaved people who ran away were “disordered.” The treatment? Punishment and forced labor. This is why I say: Black history isn’t just something we learn. It’s something the nervous system remembers. When you understand that, medical mistrust makes sense. Comment “BODY” if you want Episode 7. #BlackHistory #TraumaTok #NervousSystem #BlackMentalHealth #tiktoklearningcampaign
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This is how depraved enslavers were. If a slave dared to try to escape, they were accused of being mentally ill. They even came up with a name for it called Drapetomania. 🙄 Drapetomania was a fraudulent 1851 pseudo-medical diagnosis coined by Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright to describe the alleged mental illness causing enslaved people to flee captivity. Rooted in scientific racism, it aimed to pathologize the desire for freedom, suggesting that running away was a curable, irrational “mania”. #blackhi
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What was Drapetomania? Coined in 1851 by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright, drapetomania was a pseudo-medical term used to describe the supposed mental illness that caused enslaved Africans to flee captivity. The name comes from the Greek "drapetes" (a runaway) and "mania" (madness or frenzy). Cartwright argued that enslaved people who tried to escape were suffering from a disorder that could be prevented or cured by proper physical discipline and Christian guidance. In his article titled
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