In 1851, a white supremacist "doctor" declared that enslaved Black people who ran away from their bondage did so because they were sick. He said that sickness was called "drapetomania" and he delivered his treatise on this malady to the Medical Board of Louisiana. With a straight face I'm sure.
Though roundly dismissed in contemporary times, and ridiculed in some parts of the North in the antebellum ones, we created this piece to remind you that the establishment will abuse legitimate facets of life to hold us back. But I want to be free. So I'll BE a draptomaniac.
