Seaboard Slave States (1856), observed that white indentured servants had often been known to flee as well, so he satirically hypothesized that the supposed disease was actually of white European origin, and had been introduced to Africa by traders. See also Dysaesthesia aethiopica, another novel diagnosis of Cartwright's regarding what was seen as a mental illness that was the cause of laziness among slaves. The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease Depression Dromomania Political abuse of psychiatry Fugitive slave Classification of mental disorders Sluggish schizophrenia References Sources Samuel A. Cartwright, "Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race", The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal 1851:691–715 (May). Reprinted in DeBow's Review XI (1851). Available at Google Books and excerpted at PBS.org. Reprinted in Arthur Caplan, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and James McCartney, eds, Concepts of Health and Disease in Medicine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1980). Reprinted in Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, Dominic A. Sisti, eds, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004) External links An Early History – African American Mental Health DicoPolHiS Bibliography Katherine Bankole, Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana, New York: Taylor and Francis Group, 1998. Bob Myers, "Drapetomania": Rebellion, Defiance and Free Black Insanity in the Antebellum United States, phD thesis, 2014. Scientific racism Obsolete medical terms Political abuses of psychiatry Obsolete terms for mental disorders Stereotypes of African Americans White supremacy in the United States Pseudoscience Mania Social problems in medicine Slavery in the United States Fugitive American slaves Race and health in the United States Psychiatric false diagnosis History of psychology Post-traumatic stress disorder