Orlando Patterson is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, the author of Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, Slavery and Social Death, and the editor of The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, for which he was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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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. Slavery is shown to be a parasitic r... SEE MORE