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Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about something wild. Drape domania, now, don't worry,

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Speaker 1: is not another WWE event. It's not a new crypto

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Speaker 1: scam or a TikTok trend. It's actually a piece of

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Speaker 1: history that's so ridiculous it sounds like satire. I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. Back in eighteen fifty one,

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Speaker 1: this guy named Samuel Cartwright, he's a doctor. Mind you

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Speaker 1: comes up with this disease called drape toomania. And what

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Speaker 1: was this illness? You ask, Well, I'll share. It was

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Speaker 1: when enslaved black people wanted to escape. Yes, apparently wanting

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Speaker 1: freedom was considered a mental disorder, like, oh wait, you

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Speaker 1: don't enjoy being beaten and overworked and treated like property,

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Speaker 1: must be something wrong with your brain. And doctor Cartwright

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Speaker 1: wasn't just joking around. He had treatment plans spoiler alert,

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Speaker 1: they weren't great. His cure was basically, you just got

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Speaker 1: to hit them harder, because you know, nothing says mental

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Speaker 1: health care like a little violence. But drape domania wasn't

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Speaker 1: the only wild word. They came up with during this time.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, they had a whole lexicon of oppression. Take

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Speaker 1: chattle for example, that's what they called the enslaved people.

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Speaker 1: You've heard of chattle slavery. Yeah, chattel means property like

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Speaker 1: a couch or a cow. Imagine being referred to as

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Speaker 1: someone's love seat. Or how about the term fugitive slave.

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Speaker 1: That term was for people who escaped slavery. They made

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Speaker 1: it sound like these folks were robbing banks instead of,

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Speaker 1: you know, trying to not be enslaved. Then there were

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Speaker 1: the slave codes, and we've discussed these in previous seasons

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Speaker 1: of I didn't know, maybe you dine either, But these

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Speaker 1: were actually laws designed to control enslaved people. They dictated

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Speaker 1: everything where you could go, who you could talk to,

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Speaker 1: even whether you could learn to read. Like, we're already

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Speaker 1: still in your freedom, but let's go ahead and micro

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Speaker 1: manage your existence too. Oh here's another fun one, manumissions.

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Speaker 1: Now that these were rare, because that's when in enslaver

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Speaker 1: decided to free someone thoughtful. Congratulations, you're free. Now go

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Speaker 1: figure out life in the world has been set up

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Speaker 1: to screw you over. They also had a term the

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Speaker 1: task system and that's where enslaved people were giving daily

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Speaker 1: assignments instead of just working from sun up to sundown. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: people actually thought this was progress. It's like saying good news,

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Speaker 1: you only have to suffer for half the day now.

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Speaker 1: So why am I telling you all this? Because words

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Speaker 1: have power. Back then, they use words to dehumanize, to control,

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Speaker 1: to justify the unjustifiable. And today we still see how

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Speaker 1: language shapes the way we view people and history. But

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. We get to decide how we use

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Speaker 1: our words now. So let's use them to lift each

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Speaker 1: other up, to tell the truth, and to remind the

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Speaker 1: world that no one should ever need need a diagnosis

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Speaker 1: to want their freedom. Drake, doromania a word that I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. Maybe you didn't either,