Samuel A. Cartwright
(1793-1863)
American physician
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Samuel Adolphus Cartwright (November 3, 1793 – May 2, 1863) was a racist physician who practiced in Mississippi and Louisiana in the antebellum United States. Cartwright is best known as the inventor of the 'mental illness' of drapetomania, the desire of a slave for freedom, and an outspoken critic of germ theory. During the American Civil War he joined the Confederate States of America and was assigned the responsibility of improving sanitary conditions in the camps about Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Port Hudson, Louisiana.
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3 November 1793 Fairfax County, Virginia
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2 May 1863 (aged 69) Jackson, Mississippi
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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