Slavery and social death

By Orlando Patterson Orlando Patterson

Subjects: Aspect psychologique, Psychologie, Slaveholders, Esclavage, Esclaves, Slavery, Propriétaires d'esclaves, Propriétaires d'esclaves noirs, Slavery. 0, Slavery - social sciences, Slavernij, Proprietaires d'esclaves, World history - general & miscellaneous, Sklaverei, Esclaves - Psychologie, Slavery & abolitionism - african american history, Slaves, Psychology, Proprietaires d'esclaves noirs

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.