Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study by Orlando Patterson

Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study

Orlando Patterson

511 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This is the first full-scale comparative study of the nature of slavery. 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 ...

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