Download or read book Slavery and Social Death written by Orlando Patterson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.