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Author Patterson, Orlando, 1940- author.

Title Slavery and social death : a comparative study / Orlando Patterson
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 511 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents The internal relations of slavery. The idiom of power -- Authority, alienation, and social death -- Honor and degradation -- Slavery as an institutional process. Enslavement of "free" persons -- Enslavement by birth -- The acquisition of slaves -- The condition of slavery -- Manumission : its meaning and modes -- The status of freed persons -- Patterns of manumission -- The dialectics of slavery. The ultimate slave -- Slavery as human parasitism
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
Analysis Slavery
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 1983
Subject Slavery.
Enslaved persons -- Psychology
Slaveholders -- Psychology
Slaveholders.
Enslavement
Enslaved Persons -- psychology
slavery.
Slaveholders
Slaveholders -- Psychology
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Psychology
Sklaverei
Slavernij.
Esclavage.
Esclaves -- Aspect psychologique.
Propriétaires d'esclaves noirs -- Aspect psychologique.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0674810821
9780674810822
067481083X
9780674810839
0674744144
9780674744141