# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-a-cartwright
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:50:57.875Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-a-cartwright"
name: "Samuel A. Cartwright"
slug: "samuel-a-cartwright"
description: "Samuel Adolphus Cartwright was an American medical doctor who practiced in Mississippi and Louisiana in the antebellum United States. Cartwright is best known for promoting the pseudoscientific concept of drapetomania, which falsely pathologized enslaved people's desire for freedom, and for publicly rejecting germ theory."
tagline: "American physician (1793–1863)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuelcartwright.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1793-11-03"
deathDate: "1863-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.377456049638056
  historical:           8.138918666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump