Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture
Orlando Patterson
487 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1850433585
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1991
American HistoryAnthropologyCulturalHistoryNonfictionPhilosophyPoliticsRaceResearchSociology
This magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societies with the institution of slavery, and traces the evolution of three forms of freedom in the West from antiquity through the Middle Ages.