Orlando Patterson

| image = Orlando Patterson portrait.jpg | caption = Patterson at the University of California, Berkeley | birth_date = | birth_place = Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica | title = John Cowles Chair in Sociology at Harvard University | awards = | education = | doctoral_advisor = David Glass | discipline = Sociologist | workplaces = Harvard University | main_interests = | notable_works = "The Sociology of Slavery" (1967); "Slavery and Social Death" (1982); ''Freedom in the Making of Western Culture'' (1991) | doctoral_students = Mabel Berezin, Marion Fourcade | birth_name = Horace Orlando Patterson }}

Horace Orlando Patterson (born 5 June 1940) 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. Provided by Wikipedia