| John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 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 the most degrading submission on the other. Our... | |
| William Goodell - History - 1852 - 810 pages
...Englishman, much less a gentleman, shuuld plead for it." — Essay on Government. Thomas Jefferson said : " The whole commerce between master and slave, is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions ; the most unremitting despotisms, on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other." "I tremble... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 586 pages
...In his " Notes on Virginia," he speaks emphatically of the unhappy influence of slavery. He says : "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. Our children... | |
| Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...against human intelligence ; to resist that improvement which is the end of the Creator. Jefferson. The whole commerce between master and slave, is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions—the most unremitting despotism on one part, and degrading submissions on the other. * *... | |
| Slavery - 1853 - 380 pages
...Civil Code, Art. 23. " The slave is ENTIRELY subject to the WILL of his master." — Ib., Art. 273. " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unre•,'iutting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other." — Jefferson.... | |
| Joshua Reed Giddings - Slavery - 1853 - 530 pages
...intercourse between master and slave. On this point, Mr, Jefferson, in his " Notes on Virginia," says : " 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... | |
| William Goodell - Enslaved persons - 1853 - 458 pages
...at the head of this chapter, for the correctness of which we here cite a few personal testimonies. " 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." " Thus nursed,... | |
| William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 pages
...Thomas Jeffeison, the man who, when speaking 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 most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. With what execration... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 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... | |
| Josiah Quincy - History - 1856 - 32 pages
...graphically exhibits " the unhappy influence on 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; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children... | |
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