Samuel A. Cartwright
American physician (1793-1863) · United States · On the map · Doctors · Died at 69
Samuel Adolphus Cartwright was an American medical doctor who practiced in Mississippi and Louisiana in the antebellum United States.
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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.
Country
United States
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1793 to 1863 · aged 69
