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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Slavery is one of humanity's most ancient and persistent inequities. It predates the rise of civilization, played a key role in the growth of Western and Islamic cultures and was an integral part of the emergence and global spread of capitalism. Given its... SEE MORE