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Freedom
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Freedom

by Orlando Patterson

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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780465025329

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ON SALE: 14th October 1992

Genre: Society & Social Sciences / Politics & Government / Political Science & Theory

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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.