 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...born to live and labor for another." The effect on the masters is equally devastating, he said, for "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 submission on the other." Slavery ruins... | |
 | Olaudah Equiano - Social Science - 2001 - 340 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 exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children... | |
 | John T. Noonan - History - 2002 - 236 pages
...preceded by one both social and personal, cast in terms of Jefferson's most prized value, education: "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. Our children... | |
 | Gary Hart - Political Science - 2002 - 305 pages
...moral basis for his opposition to slavery — that it both corrupts the master and debases the slave: "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 submission on the other The man must... | |
 | Seymour Bernard Sarason - Education - 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 exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting depotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children... | |
 | Paul C. Metcalf - History - 2002 - 290 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 exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children... | |
 | 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...perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other." He held that... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 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 exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - History - 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... | |
 | Bruce Dain - History - 2002 - 350 pages
...owning slaves brutalized whites, with every white child absorbing the spirit of tyranny from the crib: "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 . . . The man... | |
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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. 
