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Slavery and social death : a comparative study

Patterson, Orlando 1940- (Author).

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.

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  • ISBN: 0674810821
  • ISBN: 9780674810822
  • Physical Description: print
    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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