Freedom: Volume I: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture

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.

Winner of United States National Book Awards: Nonfiction 1991

Orlando Patterson is the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

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.

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