| Description |
xiii, 511 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Note: Contents data are based on pre-publication information provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete. -- -- The internal relations of slavery -- Slavery as an institutional process -- The dialectics of slavery |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 1983 |
| Subject |
Slaveholders -- Psychology.
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Slavery.
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Slaves -- Psychology.
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| Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| LC no. |
82001072 |
| ISBN |
0674810821 |
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067481083X |
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9780674810822 |
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9780674810839 |
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