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Author Patterson, Orlando, 1940-

Title Slavery and social death : a comparative study / Orlando Patterson.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  306.362    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.36 P27    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.362 P318S    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 511 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Contents The internal relations of slavery. The idiom of power -- Authority, alienation, and social death -- Honor and degradation -- Slavery as an institutional process. Enslavement of "free" persons -- Enslavement by birth -- The acquisition of slaves -- The condition of slavery -- Manumission : its meaning and modes -- The status of freed persons -- Patterns of manumission -- The dialectics of slavery. The ultimate slave -- Slavery as human parasitism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Subject Enslavers -- Psychology.
Subject Enslaved persons -- Psychology.
Slavery.
Slaveholders -- Psychology.
ISBN 0674810821
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