trying to scientifically bolster the prevailing ideology that black people were mentally and physically inferior to white people. and therefore benefited from enslavement. that thinking was so pervasive at the time that it spawned propaganda like this print from slavery apologists who pushed a narrative that enslaved blacks in the u.s. or better off than white factory workers. and it provided material for slave holders like south carolina senator john calhoun, who in 18 37th speech argued that slavery was a boom to black people. never before has the black rays of central africa from the dawn of history to the present day attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically but morally and intellectually. this kind of thinking gave rise to junk science like which translate to runaway madness. it was a clinical term of the 1850s based on the belief that slavery so vastly improve the lives of the enslaved. that they would have to be
carolina senator john calhoun, who in 18 37th speech argued that slavery was a boom to black people. never before has the black rays of central africa from the dawn of history to the present day attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically but morally and intellectually. this kind of thinking gave rise to junk science like which translate to runaway madness. it was a clinical term of the 1850s based on the belief that slavery so vastly improve the lives of the enslaved. that they would have to be mentally ill to run away. the term drapetomania was not removed from medical textbooks until after 1914. human experiments in racist propaganda and fake science were used to prove something that we all know now is patently false black people did not benefit from slavery, cried obviously. but this year in florida the