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`Drapetomania' puts urban blues on stage
...Bay State Banner 11-02-1995 `Drapetomania' puts urban blues on stage.The provocative Quraysh Ali & Drapetomania, who performed at the newly-opened...escape from hell holes.The word "drapetomania" is taken from the vocabulary of... |
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Human conduct is moral issue
...reasoning, so it turned down the insanity plea. Now to drapetomania. It should not be strange that few people have ever heard of drapetomania because there have been no cases of drapetomania in the United States for more than a century. According... |
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Nineteenth century review of mental health care for African Americans: a...
...Cartwright in the De Bow's Review observed two "diseases of the mind" which he associated with slaves: drapetomania and dysaethesia aethiopica (as cited by Stampp, 1961). Specifically, drapetomania was defined as "sulky and d |
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Book Exposes Modern Roots Of Racism And Violence: Are our tax dollars
...to escape to freedom was labeled a mental illness called "drapetomania" (runaway mania). Today, the various reactions by African...acceptable for psychiatrists to invent the so-called disease `drapetomania.' Today, it is both culturally and financially acceptable... |
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Psychiatry's Betrayal Creating Racism: The Modern Roots Of Racism And
...to escape to freedom was labeled a mental illness called `drapetomania' (runaway mania). Today, the various reactions by African...acceptable for psychiatrists to invent the so-called disease, `drapetomania.' Today, it is both culturally and financially acceptable... |
 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Several recent books examine the Civil War era from a black perspective.
...away must be mentally unbalanced, a condition he termed "drapetomania" _ from the Greek words for a crazy, runaway slave. So...Scribner), suggests that the frequent references to drapetomania are due to its existence today in a slightly different form... |
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Play it again, fans, at Chicago sports exhibit
...books, sculpture, prints and paintings in Runaway Slave/ Drapetomania: The Quest for Freedom, opening today at the DuSable Museum...peculiarities of the Negro race." In the article, the word "drapetomania" was created from the Greek words "drapeto" (meaning... |
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Book Exposes Modern Roots of Racism and Violence: Are our tax dollars
...to escape to freedom was labeled a mental illness called `drapetomania' (runaway mania). Today, the various reactions by African...acceptable for psychiatrists to invent the so-called disease `drapetomania.' Today, it is both culturally and financially acceptable... |
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Damming the rivers of racism.(THE ETHICAL WAY)
...Office of Minority and National Affairs, points to advances in our specialty, such as the elimination of diagnoses like "drapetomania"--flight-from-home madness--from any diagnostic manual. On the other hand, Dr. Primm notes that we still have... |
 "The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)")
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SLAVES EXCELLED IN CREATIVE WAYS TO ESCAPE OPPRESSION
...doctor, Samuel Cartwright, believed that slaves were running away simply because they were sick. He names the sickness "drapetomania." It didn't occur to Dr. Cartwright that it might be slavery itself that made black people flee. In 1847 two Georgia... |
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