On Human Bondage–a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson’s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death–assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies.
* Discusses the novel ideas of social death and natal alienation, as Patterson first presented them 35 years ago and as they are understood today
* Brings together exciting new work by a group of esteemed historians of slavery, as well as a final chapter by Patterson himself that respo...
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List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Preface xii
Introduction 1
John Bodel and Walter Scheidel
1 Slavery and Personhood in the Neo -Assyrian Empire 1...
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John Bodel is W. Duncan Mac Millan II Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Brown University, USA. He studies ancient Roman history and Latin literature and has spe...