 | Michael P. Branch - Nature - 2004 - 444 pages
...here, as in the neighborhood of the natural bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these...mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its center. The height of our mountains has not yet been estimated with any degree of exactness. The Allegheny... | |
 | William Wells Brown - Fiction - 2003 - 324 pages
...Thomas Jefferson, the man who, when speaking against slavery in the legislature of Virginia, said, "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submission on the other. With what execration should the statesman be loaded who, permitting one half... | |
 | Michael O'Brien - History - 2004 - 800 pages
...rational liberty. This was a transposition of the familiar Jeffersonian objection to slavery, that it was "a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...one part, and degrading submissions on the other." 4 ' Dew's approach to the Greeks was sympathetic, anthropological about their religion, and inclined... | |
 | Edwin M Yoder, Jr. - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 292 pages
...whose "Notes on Virginia" are the most scalding of all condemnations of the master-slave relationship ("a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...one part and degrading submissions on the other") can hardly have failed to be tormented by this betrayal of that other, loftier self who wrote the soaring... | |
 | Thelma Wills Foote - History - 2004 - 344 pages
...victim, what Thomas Jefferson described as "the whole commerce between master and slave [that was] a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other."173 Defined as an act of sexual violence against the person of another, rape... | |
 | Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, Anand A. Yang - History - 2005 - 268 pages
...first persons to note the impact of slavery on the personality of the 94 slave owners. He observed, "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...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... | |
 | Garry Wills - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 298 pages
...message to Congress was dated Oct. 27, 1807. 20. Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...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... | |
 | Sean Wilentz - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 1114 pages
...abomination. Thomas Jefferson had famously written, in his Notes on the State of Virginia of 1785, that "[t]he whole commerce between master and slave is...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. ... I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." Jefferson would never tremble enough... | |
 | Clayton Sinyai - Business & Economics - 2006 - 310 pages
...relations of command and obedience despoil the civic virtue of both parties to the unhealthy relationship. "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...one part, and degrading submissions on the other," he contended. A practice "permitting one half the citizens to trample on the rights of the other, transforms... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 148 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...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Notes on the State of Virginia, 17*2 Virginia. This is the next state to which we may turn our eyes... | |
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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. 
