Slavery and Social Death

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Slavery and Social Death is written by Orlando Patterson and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 067481083X (ISBN 10) and 9780674810839 (ISBN 13).

Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in 66 societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. Slavery, he argues, is a single process of recruitment, incorporation on the margin of society, and eventual manumission or death.