Slavery and social death : a comparative study / Orlando Patterson.
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.
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- ISBN: 0674810821
- ISBN: 9780674810822
- Physical Description: xiii, 511 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Subject: | Slavery. Enslaved persons > Psychology. Slaveholders > Psychology. |
