Drapetomania

GPTKB entity

Statements (17)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf pseudoscientific disease
gptkbp:affects enslaved Africans
gptkbp:claimedSymptom urge to escape slavery
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:describedBy Samuel A. Cartwright
gptkbp:firstDescribed 1851
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Drapetomania
gptkbp:publishedIn The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal
gptkbp:recognizedBy gptkb:modern_medicine
gptkbp:regardedAs discredited theory
racist concept
gptkbp:relatedTo pseudoscience
history of psychiatry
racism in science
gptkbp:usedToJustify slavery
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Spectacle_&_Pigsty
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5