 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
 | Campaign literature - 1856 - 80 pages
...Jefferson in his Notes on Virginia : The whole commerce between master and slave is a continual exercise of the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other." * * ***** With what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half of the citizens... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1856 - 96 pages
...in his Notes on Virginia : " The whole commerce between master and slave is a continual exercise of the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other." * * « * » " With what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half of the... | |
 | George William Curtis - Citizenship - 1856 - 46 pages
...says, in his Notes on Virginia, "The whole commerce between master and slave is a continual exercise of the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. * * * Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and his justice cannot sleep... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...encouragement of callousness and cruelty in the master: "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." He held that "nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 376 pages
...convulsion. Query XVII, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 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 animal.... | |
 | Paul C. Metcalf - History - 2002 - 290 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 animal.... | |
 | John Hope Franklin - History - 2002 - 340 pages
...1782. In his Notes on Virginia he observed that the whole relationship between master and slave was "a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...unremitting despotism on the one part; and degrading submissions on the other." Even worse, the slaveowner's child imitates it. Seeing the parent storm,... | |
 | Seymour Bernard Sarason - Education - 2002 - 305 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 depotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this and learn to... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - History - 2002 - 289 pages
...boisterous pasTO AMERICA 3 sions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 pages
...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;...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 wrath,... | |
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