Drapetomania

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

Drapetomania was a proposed hypothesis as the cause of enslaved Americans fleeing captivity proposed in 1851 by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright.

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