In fact, I was reminded by -- in 1851, there was a doctor named Samuel Cartwright who coined the term "drapetomania" to describe what he said was a syndrome of runaway slave who ran away from abusive treatment. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The main theme is slavery and racial inequality which does not end with the War; the film is eye-opening because so many elements of it are not actually fictional - the psychiatric diagnosis of "drapetomania" to describe runaway slaves and justify medical treatment of same; the portrayal of slaves and negroes in brand advertising, several of which exist in our reality too e.g. ❋ Sci-Fi Gene (2009)
[1] The absurdity of this belief is evident in Louisiana physician Dr. Samuel Cartwright's 1851 proposal of a psychiatric diagnosis (drapetomania) to explain the pathological tendency of Black slaves to flee captivity. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Examples - Drapetomania:In psychiatry, drapetomania was a mental illness described by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright in 1851 that caused black slaves to flee captivity. ❋ Zoe Brain (2008)
The so-called crazy desire of our foremothers and forefathers to be free was considered a disease with an actual name: drapetomania. ❋ Terrie M. Williams (2008)
In addition to identifying drapetomania, Cartwright prescribed a remedy to cure the malady. ❋ Zoe Brain (2008)
Right next to the scratched-out entry for drapetomania, I guess. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And then years ago during slavery times, the psychiatric industry coined a phrase called drapetomania, which meant that if you tried to run away as a slave, that you were crazy. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Today, drapetomania is considered an example of pseudoscience, and part of the edifice of scientific racism. ❋ Zoe Brain (2008)
Conversely, we may think something is a disease but we might be wrong, just as we were wrong about drapetomania or masturbation, which do not causally depend on any biological malfunction. ❋ Murphy, Dominic (2008)
Medical science had not then been pushed to that profundity of analysis, which now distinguishes it, at the South; but, in the unprofessional records of the times, the distinguishing symptoms may be clearly recognized, of both drapetomania and dysoesthesia, and it is clear, I think, that these maladies prevailed among this class of laborers, to an exceedingly interesting extent. ❋ Unknown (1856)
When sulky or dissatisfied without cause, the experience of those having most practice with drapetomania, the Doctor thinks, has been in favor of "whipping them out of it." ❋ Unknown (1856)
The one which prevails most generally is called by our doctors drapetomania; and the only way I can account for this strange affair, is by supposing that Bill and Nelly had an attack of that disease. ❋ Unknown (1853)
He advises that the whip should be freely applied when the first symptoms of drapetomania appear. ❋ Unknown (1853)
Who would have thought of his being seized with drapetomania? ❋ Unknown (1853)
[I'm sick] of this [city], Drapetomania is [taking] me over. ❋ Snickel (2011)
[None] needed. ❋ Chris Johnson (2004)
