?A Southern physician, Samuel Cartwright, argued that many of the slaves [in America] suffered from a form of mental illness, which he called ?drapetomania?, diagnosed as the uncontrollable urge to escape from slavery. In the second half of the 20th-centruy, this illness, in the Third World, has usually been called ?communism?.?
?A Southern physician, Samuel Cartwright, argued that many of the slaves [in America] suffered from a…
William Blum
William Blum was an American author and historian. He was a critic of United States foreign policy. William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam. He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first “alternative” newspaper in the capital.