Slavery and social death

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