Slavery and Social Death A Comparative Study

Why read it

• You will understand slavery as a substitute for death, a life granted only while the slave accepts powerlessness
• You will notice that the whip was treated as indispensable in every known slaveholding society, so coercion was never incidental
• You will face the unsettling claim that the Western ideal of freedom grew out of slavery, since the first to value freedom were freedmen

Who it is for

• History student comparing slavery across cultures
• Reader troubled by where the idea of freedom came from
• Sociologist interested in power and dependence

Contents

1. paterson - slavery and social death OCR
2. Patterson - Slavery and Social Death to pp264

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