IDKMYDE: Drapetomania and the Lexicon of Oppession
IDKMYDE: Drapetomania and the Lexicon of Oppession  
Podcast: The Breakfast Club
Published On: Mon Feb 10 2025
Description: 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.