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Benjamin Rush Black Suffer From Negritude

Dr. Benjamin Rush is known as the, “Father Of American Psychiatry”. He was also an abolitionist. Rush believed that blacks suffered from a disorder he called “Negritude” due then having dark skin. He described this condition as being akin to leprosy. The only cure for the condition was to become white. https://www.google.com/amp/s/blackmail4u.com/2015/11/28/negritude-disorder-of-being-black/amp/

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