# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/orlando-patterson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:03:40.356Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/orlando-patterson"
name: "Orlando Patterson"
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description: "Horace Orlando Patterson  is a Jamaican-American historian and sociologist known for his work on the history of race and slavery in the United States and Jamaica, as well as the sociology of development. He is currently the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Patterson's 1991 book Freedom in the Making of Western Culture won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction."
tagline: "Historical and cultural sociologist"
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birthDate: "1940-06-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump