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                In Celebration of Black History Month

The Bienes Center for the Literary Arts (Broward County Library,
 Ft. Lauderdale, FL) is pleased to present:

DRAPETOMANIA: A DISEASE CALLED FREEDOM
An Exhibition of 18th-, 19th-, and Early 20th-Century
African-American Material Culture From the Collection of Derrick
Joshua Beard
February 1-April 15, 200

The title of the exhibition is taken from an article by Dr. Samuel A.
Cartwright that appeared in the "The Georgia Blister and Critic: a
Monthly Journal....v.1, #7 (Sept. 1854), p. 156. In the article,
Cartwright describes how he created the word "drapetomania" by
combining two Greek words meaning "runaway slave" and "mad or crazy."
He gives its new definition as: "The cause, in the most of cases,
that induces the negro to run away from service..."

The exhibition is divided into the following sections: Haiti;
Slavery; Early Enslaved Muslims; Abolitionism (Anti-Slavery);
Children's Anti-Slavery; New Orleans; Black Military; Reconstruction
and Post-Civil War; African Americans on the Frontier; and Slave
Songs and African-American Music; and it contains 114 items
including: 8 periodicals; 48 books; 15 pieces of ephemera (slave
auction broadsides, wills, marriage certificates, letters, envelopes,
funeral notices, etc.); 28 photographs (albumen prints, ambrotypes,
cabinet cards, carte-de-visites, daguerreotypes, stereo view cards,
tintypes); a chair; a carved coconut shell box top; a miniature
painting; a silver serving spoon; a slave collar; textiles; baskets;
and realia.

A 64-page catalog entitled: Drapetomania: A Disease Called Freedom
(ISBN: 09678858-0-9), with color illustrations and priced at $15.00,
can be ordered from the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Broward
County Library, 100 S. Andrews Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301.
(Individuals please make check payable to: Bienes Center for the
Literary Arts, Broward County Library. Institutions will be billed).

The exhibition catalog will also be available on the Bienes Center's
website as of April 1, 2000 at:
www.browardlibrary.org/library/bienes

For further information contact:

 James A. Findlay, Librarian
Bienes Center for the Literary Arts
Broward County Library, 6th Floor
100 S. Andrews Ave.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301

954-357-8692  (phone)
954-357-6762 (fax)
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James A. Findlay
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Bienes Center for the Literary Arts
The Dianne and Michael Bienes
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