"“Drapetomania”—that is the name of the mental disorder that was contrived by Samuel Cartwright, who said that Blacks had a mental disorder if they had a desire to run away from slavery."
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Lisa Cain, as interviewed in Psychiatry: Industry of Death (2006)
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