The American physician Samuel Cartwright identifying in 1851 a mental disorder, drapetomania, evident only in slaves. The sole symptom was the desire to run away from slavery and the cure was to whip the devil out of them
Jon Ronson
The American physician Samuel Cartwright identifying in 1851 a mental disorder, drapetomania, evident only in slaves. The sole symptom was the desire to run away from slavery and the cure was to whip the devil out of them