Reading old documents can be fun :)

[narzy]

Page 31...

and I quote

"It is true that there are fewer insane proportionately in the South, partly because of the preponderance of the colored race, who are, it is said, not so subject to insanity^1"

Footnote 1:
Religion is said to be the chief cause of insanity among the sothern negroes, and it is a form of the disease very hard to cure.

what 100 years will do to our understanding of mental illness and adaptation of the English language...

 

[moshquerade]

Yeh, sounds like they didn't have a grasp of what insanity actually was in the 1800's. It sounds like because black people actually sang out loud and praised the Lord in higher volumes, when most others prayed in silence, for that reason they considered them insane.

 

[imported_cheapdude]

Religion cause insanity and should be outlawed.

 

[hjo3]

Even better.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: hjo3
Even better.

They'd end up bombing the Baldwins for sure 😉

 

[Cooler]

I read my old undergrad papers and I think wtf was i thinking.