<p>Scientists have long been been very unkind to African-Americans in the way the have assessed them. For example have you ever heard of DRAPETOMANIA or DYSAETHESIA AETHIOPICA.</p>
<p>The first was a disease specific to African-Americans, which caused them to run away from slavery. Can you image that? Slaves running away. Obviously they must have been sick. The second was also know colloquially by overseers as “rascality.” Can you image that, a disease which caused slaves not to cooperate in their slavery. [Africans</a> in America/Part 4/“Diseases and Peculiarities”](<a href=“http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3106t.html]Africans”>Africans in America/Part 4/"Diseases and Peculiarities")</p>
<p>And then there was the Census of 1840.</p>