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Slave

USA physician Samuel Cartwright announced a fake mental illness in 1851 supposedly afflicting only Black slaves: "Drapetomania." Symptom: "the urge to flee the plantation." Cures: whipping and amputating big toes. The term remained in Stedman's Medical Dictionary until 1914.
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  • Mental illness
  • Medicine
  • Racism
  • Whipping
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