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Examines the institution of slavery in move than sixty societies and analyzes the relationship between slaves and their masters
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Densely packed, closely argued, and highly controversial in its dissent from much of the scholarly conventional wisdom about the function and structure of slavery worldwide. 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 "
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Examines the institution of slavery in move than sixty societies and analyzes the relationship between slaves and their masters.
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Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
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Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982
ISBN 10: 0674810821
ISBN 13: 9780674810822
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Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Dark gray cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; bw illustrated dj, mylar cover; xiii, 511 pp; bw illustrations. 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. 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. Good/Good (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Taped repair inside front cover. Light shelfwear to boards, block and dj. Pages are otherwise clear.). Seller Inventory # 185009