Task: Instance Description Understanding (ontology: Sciences/Biology)

Which of the following definitions best describes the instance 'drapetomania'?

A. An ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for Indigenous North American women. Contemporary use of the term, especially by non-Natives, is considered offensive, derogatory, misogynist and racist.
B. Rarely used term; often in poetic or literary contexts. Used variously to refer to women with masculine characteristics. Definitions include reference to women who are "scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated" and women who are "rough, loud, and aggressive."
C. A conjectural mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity. 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 and shown to be part of the edifice of scientific racism.
D. A mostly historical and inappropriate label sometimes used to refer to intersex conditions or to being transgender.

Answer: A conjectural mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity. 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 and shown to be part of the edifice of scientific racism.