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IDKMYDE: Drapetomania and the Lexicon of Oppession
Season 4 Episode 10
On todays episode of IDKMYDE we introduce words of oppression like, Drapetomania: the 19th-century ‘diagnosis’ that labeled enslaved people wanting freedom as mentally ill—because apparently, the real problem wasn’t slavery, it was the desire to escape it.
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