Title: Slavery and social death
First published: 1982
Description: 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.
Subjects: Psychology, Slaveholders, Slavery, Slaves, Slavery. 0, Esclaves - Psychologie, Proprietaires d'esclaves, Sklaverei, Proprietaires d'esclaves noirs, Aspect psychologique, Psychologie, Esclavage, Slavernij, Esclaves, Propriétaires d'esclaves, Propriétaires d'esclaves noirs, Slavery - social sciences, Slavery & abolitionism - african american history, World history - general & miscellaneous
LC classification: HT871 .P37 1982