IDKMYDE: Drapetomania and the Lexicon of Oppession

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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On todays episode of IDKMYDE we introduce words of oppression like, Drapetomania: the 19th-century ‘diagnosis’ that labeled enslaved people wanting freedom as mentally ill—because apparently, the real problem wasn’t slavery, it was the desire to escape it.

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0:00.0	On today's episode, if I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
0:03.4	Let's talk about something wild.
0:06.1	Drapedomania.
0:07.3	Now, don't worry, it's not another WWE event.
0:10.5	It's not a new crypto scam or a TikTok trend.
0:13.1	It's actually a piece of history that's so ridiculous, it sounds like satire.
0:18.6	I didn't know, maybe you didn't need.
0:21.4	I didn't know. I didn't know. maybe you didn't need. I didn't know, maybe you didn't need.
0:23.7	I didn't know, maybe you didn't need.
0:26.7	I didn't know.
0:29.7	I didn't know.
0:29.7	I didn't know.
0:30.8	I didn't know.
0:32.6	This guy named Samuel Cartwright.
0:35.3	He's a doctor, mind you.
0:36.7	Comes up with this disease called drapedomania.
0:41.3	And what was this illness, you ask?
0:43.8	Well, I'll share.
0:45.2	It was when enslaved black people wanted to escape.
0:48.7	Yes, apparently wanting freedom was considered a mental disorder.
0:52.9	Like, oh wait, you don't enjoy being beaten and
0:55.3	overworked and treated like property? Must be something wrong with your brain. And Dr. Cartwright
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