Definitions for drapetomania
drapeto·ma·ni·a

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1. drapetomanianoun

   an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.). Today recognized as pseudoscience and an example of scientific racism.

2. Etymology: Coined in 1851 by Samuel A. Cartwright as a mental illness that caused black slaves to flee captivity. δραπέτης + μανία.

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1. Drapetomania

   Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity.: 41  This hypothesis centered around the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape.Cartwright specifically cited the tendency of slaves to flee the plantations that held them. Since slaves happy with their condition would not want to leave, he inferred that such people had to be sick, impervious to the natural order of things. He published an article about black slaves' illnesses and idiosyncrasies in a widely circulated Southern journal. Contemporarily reprinted in the South, Cartwright's article was widely mocked and satirized in the northern United States. The concept has since been debunked as pseudoscience: 2  and shown to be part of the edifice of scientific racism.The term derives from the Greek δραπέτης (drapetēs, "a runaway [slave]") and μανία (mania, "madness, frenzy").As late as 1914, the third edition of Thomas Lathrop Stedman's Practical Medical Dictionary included an entry for drapetomania, defined as "Vagabondage, dromomania; an uncontrollable or insane impulsion to wander."

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1. drapetomania

   Drapetomania is an outdated and discredited term coined in the 19th century to supposedly describe a mental disorder where enslaved individuals were believed to have an uncontrollable desire to escape from their captors. It was used to pathologize and justify the subjugation of African Americans during the time of slavery.

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1. Drapetomania

   Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness described by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright in 1851 that caused black slaves to flee captivity. Today, drapetomania is considered an example of pseudoscience, and part of the edifice of scientific racism.

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   The numerical value of drapetomania in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

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   The numerical value of drapetomania in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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