Slavery and Social DeathHarvard University Press, 1982 - 511 páginas This is the first full-scale comparative study of the nature of slavery. 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. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. Slavery is shown to he 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. |
Conteúdo
The Constituent Elements of Slavery | 1 |
Part I The Internal Relations of Slavery | 15 |
Part II Slavery as an Institutional Process | 103 |
Part III The Dialectics of Slavery | 297 |
Note on Statistical Methods | 345 |
Slaveholding Societies in the Murdock World Sample | 350 |
The LargeScale Slave Systems | 353 |
Notes | 365 |
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America areas Ashanti Atlantic Slave Trade Banda Islands Brazil captives Caribbean century B.C. chap China Chinese Christian claims Claude Meillassoux Colonial conception concubines culture developed Devshirme dominant early economic eighteenth century emperor empire Engerman eunuchs female slaves free persons freed freedmen freedom ghilman Greece Greek History honor human Ibid important Islamic Jamaica kidnapping Korea L'esclavage dans l'Europe l'Europe médiévale labor large-scale slave latifundia London major male Mamluk manumission manumission rate manumitted masters and slaves matrilineal medieval Meillassoux Miers and Kopytoff modern Muslim natally alienated nineteenth century nonslave parasitism pattern peculium percent period plantation political practice premodern problem rate of manumission relation relationship religion ritual role Roman Law Rome significant slav slave population slave societies slave systems slaveholding societies slavery Slavery in Africa social death source of slaves status Studies symbolic tion Tuareg U.S. South Verlinden Viking women York