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Orlando Patterson John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University received his early education in his native Jamaica his B.Sc. in economics from UCWI-London University and went on to earn his Ph.D. in sociology from the London School of Econom

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Orlando Patterson moved to Harvard in 1969-70 as a Visiting Professor and the following year was appointed there to a Full Professorship in Sociology. He is the author of ten books and several book-length government reports on urban poverty prepared while he was special advisor to Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica during the seventies.

His first academic work The Sociology of Slavery: Jamaica 1655-1838 published in 1967 explored the problems of slavery and freedom as well as the roots of racism and poverty in Jamaica and these have remained his main lifelong interests although later explored in comparative terms.

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