 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. ncile Britain and America. The last cord now is broken, the people of England are the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children... | |
 | James W. Loewen - Education - 2007 - 464 pages
..."Commerce between master and slave is despotism." Padover distilled these seven words from the sentence, "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," that Jefferson... | |
 | Anna-Lisa Cox - Social Science - 2007 - 300 pages
...slave owner and deeply conflicted over slavery and the role of people from Africa in America — wrote, "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 was... | |
 | Johannes Steffens - 2007 - 49 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 Patrick Diggins - History - 2008 - 323 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... | |
 | Michael Warren - History - 2007 - 235 pages
...of these freedom fighters were slaveholders, of course, was rank hypocrisy. Jefferson admitted that "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." Moreover, the... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - Religion - 2007 - 266 pages
...met, Jefferson wrote that the practice of slavery corrupts society and clearly contradicts God's will. "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... | |
 | William Safire - Political Science - 2008 - 888 pages
...writings is boisterous: "Timid men . . . prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty." "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions." And Theodore Roosevelt, exponent of "the strenuous life," used the word strenuous repeatedly. Adlai... | |
 | Erik S. Root - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 268 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... | |
 | Kwakiutl L. Dreher - Social Science - 2008 - 240 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... | |
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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. 
