Dysaesthesia aethiopica
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In psychiatry, dysaesthesia aethiopica was an alleged mental illness described by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright in 1851, which proposed a theory for the cause of laziness among slaves. Today
Lesions on the back of an enslaved African from Mississippi
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
Dysaesthesia aethiopica
…Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race", The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal 1851:691–715 (May). Reprinted in DeBow's Review XI (1851). Available at Google Books and excerpted at PBS.org. Reprinted in Arthur Caplan, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and James McCartney, eds…
De Bows Review from 1857