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" But the most interesting of all slave maladies was what Cartwright chose to call “drapetomania,” the disease that made blacks want to run away from slavery. "

, Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America


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 quote : But the most interesting of all slave maladies was what Cartwright chose to call “drapetomania,” the disease that made blacks want to run away from slavery.