 | 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...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - History - 2002 - 289 pages
...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...other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance... | |
 | John Hope Franklin - History - 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,...one part; and degrading submissions on the other." Even worse, the slaveowner's child imitates it. Seeing the parent storm, he "catches the lineaments... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Milton Meltzer - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 156 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 parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in... | |
 | 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...other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance... | |
 | 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...the one part, and degrading submissions on the other . . . The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."... | |
 | David Kazanjian - Social Science - 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...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. ... of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. And can the... | |
 | 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...UNREMITTING DESPOTISM on the one part, and degrading submission on the other; our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... The man must be a prodigy... | |
 | Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - History - 2004 - 368 pages
...Schwarz, "What Jefferson Helps to Explain," The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 279, no. 3 (March 1997), pp. 60-72. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the... | |
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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. 
