De Bow's Review
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De Bow's Review was a widely-circulated magazine of "agricultural, commercial, and industrial progress and resource" in the American South during the mid-19th century, from 1846 to 1884. Before the Ci
De Bows Review from 1857
Drapetomania
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Drapetomania was a proposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Americans fleeing captivity. This hypothesis was based on the be
De Bow's Review
…urged the South to resume the African slave trade, and advocated Southern nationalism as the Civil War approached. Samuel A. Cartwright's article on drapetomania was published by DeBow's. After the war, the magazine resumed publication on commercial, political, and cultural topics; urged acceptance of the…
Engraving of an escaped slave, published in 1837