Biography

Orlando Patterson received his B.S.  from London University in economics.  He obtained his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in Sociology, in 1965.  Next, he went to Harvard and was appointed a Professor in 1971. 
 

Works

• The Children of Sisyphus (1964)
• An Absence of Ruins (1967)
• The Sociology of Slavery (1967)
• Die the Day Long  (1971)
• Freedom Volume I:  Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991)

Links

Biography of Orlando Patterson

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/patterson/

Send questions or comments about the Web site to Dr. Seodial Deena, 
East Carolina University, Department of English, Multicultural Literature Program.