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Many slaves suffer from drapetomania, or the disease causing negroes to run away

Posted byRandy W. Sandberg July 8, 2010February 11, 2013

[Many slaves suffer from] drapetomania, or the disease causing negroes to run away.
~ Samuel Cartwright (1851)

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