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A physician tried to name escape from slavery a disease
Flight from slavery framed as disease
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What the record says
United States national and state register · Batch 2
- Jurisdiction / date
- Louisiana, 1851
- People / institutions
- Samuel Cartwright; Louisiana Medical Association
- Mechanism
- Diagnostic category (drapetomania)
- Allegation or event
- Flight from slavery framed as disease
- Finding or outcome
- Discredited; cited as the origin case for race-based pathologizing
- Label
- SUPPORTED
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1851-US-LA-CARTWRIGHT