Drapetomania: The Fake Disease for Escaping SlavesHow a doctor used medicine to justify human bondage.

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Learn how 'scientific racism' was used to pathologize the natural human desire for freedom. In 1851, a respected physician invented a mental illness to explain why enslaved African Americans would flee captivity, proposing brutal 'treatments' to cure it. This theory reveals the chilling extent to which science can be manipulated to uphold horrific institutions like slavery.