Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture
Orlando PattersonFreedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture
January 1, 1991Basic Books487 pages
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Argues that the concept of personal freedom developed as it did only in the Western world because of the role of women, along with slaves and foreigners, as outsiders, but that the Christian concept of spiritual freedom led to the justification of socialhierarchies.
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