From slave revolts to social death

摘要: In this article, I situate Orlando Patterson’s magnum opus, Slavery and Social Death alongside his earlier writings on slavery slave revolts in Jamaica. To appreciate fully Patterson’s contributions to sociology, comparative historical the wider literature slavery, readers must engage with full corpus of scholarly production. By reading body work all together, as part a much larger whole, social death may take new angles, depths, dimensions. previous Jamaica, suggest, invites novel ways read formulations while opening other archives through which study (after)lives slavery.