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 |
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Print version record |
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American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 1983 |
Subject |
Slavery.
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Enslaved persons -- Psychology
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Slaveholders -- Psychology
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Slaveholders.
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Enslavement
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Enslaved Persons -- psychology
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slavery.
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Slaveholders
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Slaveholders -- Psychology
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Slavery
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Enslaved persons -- Psychology
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Sklaverei
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Slavernij.
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Esclavage.
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Esclaves -- Aspect psychologique.
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Propriétaires d'esclaves noirs -- Aspect psychologique.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0674810821 |
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9780674810822 |
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067481083X |
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9780674810839 |
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0674744144 |
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9780674744141 |
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