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On Sale: Oct 14, 1992
Page Count: 512 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN-13: 9780465025329

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.