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Slavery and social death: a comparative study
Orlando Patterson
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Frontmatter
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Introduction: The Constituent Elements of Slavery (page 1)
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I The Internal Relations of Slavery
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1 The Idiom of Power (page 17)
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2 Authority, Alienation, and Social Death (page 35)
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3 Honor and Degradation (page 77)
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II Slavery as an Institutional Process
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4 Enslavement of "Free" Persons (page 105)
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5 Enslavement by Birth (page 132)
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6 The Acquisition of Slaves (page 148)
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7 The Condition of Slavery (page 172)
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8 Manumission: Its Meaning and Modes (page 209)
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9 The Status of Freed Persons (page 240)
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10 Patterns of Manumission (page 262)
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III The Dialectics of Slavery
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11 The Ultimate Slave (page 299)
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12 Slavery as Human Parasitism (page 334)
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Appendix A: Note on Statistical Methods (page 345)
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Appendix B:Slaveholding Societies in the Murdock World Sample (page 350)
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Appendix C: The Large-Scale Slave Systems (page 353)
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Notes (page 365)
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Index (page 484)
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Published: 1982
Publisher: Harvard University Press
- 9780674810822 (hardcover)
- 9780674810839 (paper)
- 9780674744141 (ebook)