The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838 by Orlando Patterson

The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838

Orlando Patterson

320 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

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Orlando Patterson’s classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all of the basic prerequisites of normal social life....

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