Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica , 1655-1838 (Patterson O)(Pevná vazba)

Orlando Patterson's classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation which disregarded and distorted almost all of the basic prerequisites of normal social life. What distinguishes Patterson's account is his detailed description of the lives and culture of slaves under this repressive regime. He analyses the conditions of slave life and work on the plantations, the African origins and social institutions of the slaves, the psychological life of slaves - what it was like to be a slave and how they survived the system mentally, socially and culturally - and the patterns and meanings of slave resistance. He shows that the real life situation of slaves involved a complete breakdown of all major social institutions, including the family, marriage, religion and morality. And yet despite the repressiveness
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