Drapetomania is a supposed disease of southern black slaves in the Us during the nineteenth century, which made them try to escape from their masters. The way to avoid it was to take care of the slave, feed him well, allow his recreational gatherings and not overexploit him; but always maintaining the position of the master, without friendship or condescension. The term was created by the racist physician Samuel Adolphus Cartwright with the Greek voices 948; 961; 945; 960; 949; 964; 951; 962; ( drapetes "fugitive slave" ) 956; 945; 957; 953; 945; ( mania "madness" , "obsession") . See dysaethesia aethiopica, eleuterophobia.
