| James Watson Webb - 1856 - 112 pages
...leave to the advocates of Slavery-extension, the task of explaining it away. Mr. Jefferson says : — " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. * * * With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed. Indeed,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 pages
...our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion. Query XVII, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...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.... | |
| Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...both for its degradation of the slave and its encouragement of callousness and cruelty in the master: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...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... | |
| Seymour Bernard Sarason - 2002 - 305 pages
...be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...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... | |
| John Hope Franklin - 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,... | |
| Stephen E. Ambrose - 2002 - 289 pages
...his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson's chapter on slavery includes this passage: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous pasTO AMERICA 3 sions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on... | |
| James L. Golden, Professor Emeritus James L Golden, Alan L. Golden - 2002 - 562 pages
...passions," revealing "unremitting despotism," and "degrading submissions. . . ." To make matters worse, "our children see this, and learn to imitate it ... for man is an imitative animal." When parents become excessively angry causing a loss of self-control when dealing with their slaves,... | |
| Mason I. Lowance - 572 pages
...be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people, produced by the existence of Slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...other; our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.... | |
| Stephen E. Ambrose - 2002 - 289 pages
...his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson's chapter on slavery includes this passage: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...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... | |
| David Kazanjian - 2003 - 336 pages
...that two discrete revolutionary possibilities exist in the colonies, and registers his terror of one: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. ... of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever... | |
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