 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 564 pages
...was reminded of the striking words of Jefferson, picturing the influence of Slavery, where 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 Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 558 pages
...s and also the remarkable representation by Jefferson of the effect on " manners," when 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." 4 « Theory... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...must have shaken the earth itself to its center. LIV.— INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY. THOMAS JEFFERSON. 1. 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... | |
 | Jan Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 300 pages
...relationship of the races that lived so close together is both shockingly true and sadly incomplete: "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... | |
 | Willie Lee Nichols Rose - History - 1999 - 558 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... | |
 | Gerry Spence - Family & Relationships - 1999 - 392 pages
...spoke of their hatred of slavery. Jefferson, in his Notes on the State of Virginia, wrote in 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 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... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...Governor of Virginia, guiding that state through the troubled last years of the American Revolution. 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... | |
 | David Brion Davis - History - 1999 - 577 pages
...major political leader in the South. Nor were there many planters in any country who could write 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 submissions on the other. Our children... | |
 | Mason Lowance - Literary Collections - 2000 - 390 pages
...be an unhappy influence on the manners of the 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 submission on the others. 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. 
