Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson
Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in 66 societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. Slavery, he argues, is a single process of recruitment, incorporation on the margin of society, and eventual manumission or death.
Densely packed, closely argued, and highly controversial in its dissent from much of the scholarly conventional wisdom about the function and structure of slavery worldwideBoston Globe There can be no doubt that this rich and learned book will reinvigorate debates that have tended to become too empirical and specialized. Patterson has helped to set out the direction for the next decades of interdisciplinary scholarship. -- David Brion Davis New York Review of Books
Orlando Patterson is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674810839 |
| ISBN 10 | 067481083X |
| Title | Slavery and Social Death |
| Author | Orlando Patterson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1985-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 528 |
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