...formulation, is 'a socially dead person'. The slave was forced into 'a secular excommunication' so that 'he ceased to belong in his own right to any legitimate social order.' The slave was also 'dishonored in a generalized way' because his social existence and worth was entirely...

...Furthermore, the slave was 'natally alienated': 'Alienated from all "rights" or claims of birth, he ceased to belong in his own right to any legitimate social order. All ratio is discussed, but the words 'slave' and 'serf' are used interchangeably. For criticisms see North...

...The slave was therefore "a socially dead person. Alienated from all 'rights' or claims of birth, he ceased to belong in his own right to any legitimate social order" (5). 31. Deborah McDowell also discusses the importance of scars in a post-slavery novel in "Negotiating...

...enslavement. The slave was 'a socially dead person. Alienated from all rights or claims of birth, he ceased to belong in his own right to any legitimate social order.' 40 It followed that: having no natal claims of his own, he had none to pass on to his children. And...

..."social death" and "natal alienation" of the slave: "[A]lienated from all 'rights' or claims of birth, he ceased to belong in his own right to any legitimate social order. . . . He was truly a genealogical isolate."130 The "natally alienated" slave found a place in the master's...

...slave, however recruited, is a socially dead person. "Alienated from all 'rights' or claims of birth, he ceased to belong in his own right to any legitimate...All slaves experienced, at the very least, a secular excommunication."27 Slaves were "genealogical isolates." They had a past, but they were not allowed...

...slave, however recruited, as a socially dead person. Alienated from all 'rights' or claims of birth, he ceased to belong in his own right to any legitimate social order" (5). 14. On slavery in the Odyssey, see Thalmann, The Swineherd and the Bow, 49107 and passim. 15....

..."natal alienation," which he describes as "alienation from all 'rights' or claims of birth," such that a slave "ceased to belong in his own right to any legitimate social order."10 The term natal alienation, says Patterson, points to "the loss of ties of birth in both ascending...

...depends on the idea that slavery means social death, that the slave is "a socially dead person" who has "ceased to belong in his own right to any legitimate social order" (5). Yet at the same time, he recognizes the participation of slaves in what he might call "illegitimate"...