M. D. Schaffer

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) In 1851, in an article written for DeBow’s Review that was published in New Orleans, Dr. Samuel Cartwright, a physician, created a pseudoscientific term he called “drapetomania.”  He crafted drapetomania, from two Greek words drapetes (“runaway slaves”)  and mania (madness)  to explain the reason why Southern slaves…