Horace Orlando Patterson OM is a Jamaican-American historian and sociologist known for his work on the history of race and slavery in the United States and Jamaica, as well as the sociology of development. He is currently the John Cowles Professor... Wikipedia
Place of birth: Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica
Education: London School of Economics and Political Science (1965) and Kingston College
Awards: National Book Award, Musgrave Medal, and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Affiliation: Harvard University
Doctoral advisor: David Glass
Notable works: "The Sociology of Slavery" (1967); "Slavery and Social Death" (1982); Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991)
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