page_title: Drapetomania
hierarchical_section_title: Drapetomania
caption_attribution_description: English: Low-resolution image of Samuel A. Cartwright, the psychiatrist.
context_page_description: Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness that American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of black slaves running away in 1851. It has since been debunked as pseudoscience and part of scientific racism.
context_section_description: Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness that American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of black slaves running away in 1851. It has since been debunked as pseudoscience and part of scientific racism.
caption: Samuel A. Cartwright (1793–1863)
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