{"id":786,"date":"2021-07-21T21:50:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T21:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianapaulin.domains.trincoll.edu\/locating-black-autism\/?p=786"},"modified":"2021-07-30T19:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:57:54","slug":"slavery-and-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianapaulin.domains.trincoll.edu\/locating-black-autism\/research-guide\/slavery-and-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery and Mental Health: Accounts and Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The trend of misdiagnosing Black people\u2019s mental health issues has been frequently embraced since the beginning of colonial enslavement. Fabricated Black mental inferiority was used as an argument to validate systemic white supremacy and is still used today. Pro-slavery Americans argued that Black people needed to be enslaved to stay sane. False statistics claimed that free Black people in the North were much more likely to have mental health issues than those still enslaved in the South. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since information about the mental health of Black people was used as political propaganda, not unbiased data collection, (or as unbiased as scientific research done by white scientists can be), it is difficult for modern researchers to determine what the actual mental health deficits Black people lived with from enslavement to today. Thus, it is even more difficult to track down a mental health diagnosis like Autism, which is a relatively new classification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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