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Slavery and social death : a comparative study / Orlando Patterson.

Patterson, Orlando, 1940-
1982
HT871 .P37 1982 (Mapit)
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Title
Slavery and social death : a comparative study / Orlando Patterson.
Author
Patterson, Orlando, 1940-
ISBN
067481083X (paperback)
9780674810839 (paperback)
0674810821
9780674810822
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 511 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
HT871 .P37 1982
Dewey Decimal Classification
306/.362
Summary
In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. Slavery is shown to be a parasitic relationship between master and slave, invariably entailing the violent domination of a natally alienated, or socially dead, person. The phenomenon of slavery as an institution, the author argues, is a single process of recruitment, incorporation on the margin of society, and eventual manumission or death. --from publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards
American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 1983.
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Note: Contents data are based on pre-publication information provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete.

The internal relations of slavery
Slavery as an institutional process
The dialectics of slavery.

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