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Slavery and Social Death : a Comparative Study by Orlando Patterson; American Council of Learned Societies is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Slavery and Social Death : a Comparative Study about?
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 of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. Slavery is shown to he a parasitic relationship between master and sl
Who reads Slavery and Social Death : a Comparative Study?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Orlando Patterson; American Council of Learned Societies
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 1983
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674744141
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Sociology, Science, Psychology
- Rating
- 4.17 / 5 (142 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14