Race - AAIHS - Page 40

Slavery and Disability Discourse

In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that

Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent in the United States. The

It has been argued that the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) neglected the struggle for African American equality during World War

The recent assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Möise and the power vacuum he left have deep roots in United States

The contemporary “discovery” of unmarked graves and unburied bodies of African Americans remains a disturbing reality of the Black experience.