Slavery and Social Death : A Comparative Study, with a New Preface.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson, Orlando.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slaveholders.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (511 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2018.

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.

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.

Notes:

American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 1983.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-91612-3

0-674-91613-1

OCLC:

1493246039