"Cartwright was a slaveholder's
doctor from New Orleans -- he believed in the inferiority of what he called the
"African races." He believed that abolitionism was based on a misguided notion
that black people and white people were essentially equal. He thought that the
desire for freedom in a black person was pathological because black people were
born to be enslaved. To aspire to freedom was a betrayal of their nature, a
disease. He invented "drapetomania," the impulse to run away from slavery.
Assuming there wasn't horrible cruelty being inflicted on the slaves, they were
"sick." He came up with a few diagnostic criteria and presented it to his colleagues." (thanks Amir)
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