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Slavery and social death: a comparative study

Patterson, Orlando, 1940-

Year: 1982.

Publisher: Harvard University Press.

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Frontmatter

Introduction: The Constituent Elements of Slavery

I The Internal Relations of Slavery

1 The Idiom of Power

2 Authority, Alienation, and Social Death

3 Honor and Degradation

II Slavery as an Institutional Process

4 Enslavement of "Free" Persons

5 Enslavement by Birth

6 The Acquisition of Slaves

7 The Condition of Slavery

8 Manumission: Its Meaning and Modes

9 The Status of Freed Persons

10 Patterns of Manumission

III The Dialectics of Slavery

11 The Ultimate Slave

12 Slavery as Human Parasitism

Appendix A: Note on Statistical Methods

Appendix B:Slaveholding Societies in the Murdock World Sample

Appendix C: The Large-Scale Slave Systems

Notes

Index

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Title:

Slavery and social death : a comparative study Orlando Patterson.

Author:

Patterson, Orlando, 1940-

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Slavery and social death : a comparative study Orlando Patterson.
Patterson, Orlando, 1940-
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982.

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Subject Headings:

• Slavery
• Slaveholders -- Psychology
• Slaves -- Psychology

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