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Orlando Patterson

Orlando Patterson was born on 5 June 1940 in the parish of Westmoreland, Jamaica. A graduate in economics of the University of the West Indies in 1962, he obtained in 1965 a doctorate in sociology at the London School of Economics. A professor of sociology at Harvard, he was from 1972 to 1979 special adviser to Prime Minister Michael Manley. He is the author of Slavery and Social Death, in 1982, and of Freedom, winner of the US National Book Award in 1991, as well as three novels.

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