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Slavery and Social Death
Orlando Patterson
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Preface
Contents
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
Orlando Patterson
Slavery and Social Death