The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Thomas Jefferson - Page 291by David Saville Muzzey - 1918 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 pages
...against slavery in the legislature of Virginia, said, "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions;...the one part, and degrading submission on the other. With what execration should the statesman be loaded who, permitting one half the citizens thus to trample... | |
| Joshua Reed Giddings - Slavery - 1853 - 538 pages
...point, Mr. Jefferson, in his " Notes on Virginia," says : " The whole commerce between muster and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...the one part, and degrading submission on the other. " The man mast be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."... | |
| 164 pages
...our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerca between muster and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on thfe one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Onr children see this, and learn to imitate... | |
| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 722 pages
...Jefferson, picturing the influence of Slavery, where he says, " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. The parent storms. The child looks on, catches the lineaments of... | |
| Josiah Quincy - History - 1856 - 32 pages
...the manners of slaveholders by ttfe existence of slavery. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions;...degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him.... | |
| Campaign literature - 1856 - 88 pages
...might be extended for the relief of tween master and slave is a perpetual exer- their slaves. cise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting...degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, learn to imitate it; for man ia an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him.... | |
| George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1856 - 152 pages
...by ME. JEFFERSON, in his Notes on Virginia. " The whole commerce between master and slave," says he, "is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal.... | |
| James Watson Webb - Campaign literature - 1856 - 112 pages
...task of explaining it away. Mr. Jefferson says : — " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. * * * With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed. Indeed,... | |
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