Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
Title | Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 1982 |
Authors | Patterson, Orlando |
Number of Pages | 511 |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
City | Cambridge, MA |
Abstract | 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. |
URL | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674986909&content=toc |
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