 | William Gannaway Brownlow, Abram Pryne - History - 1868 - 322 pages
...our people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between most of slaves is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions...one part, and degrading submissions on the other." ****** 20* "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only firm... | |
 | Joan Dayan, Colin Dayan - History - 1998 - 372 pages
...appetite for lust and cruelty. Writing his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson warned: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on one part, and degrading submissions on the other."126 But no matter how degrading, how despotic the... | |
 | 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...other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it." More recently, Jefferson has been seen as a theoretical abolitionist. But it would require the most... | |
 | 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...other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it."2 * Monticello was already a place of stories, before ever its owner had settled on a name for... | |
 | 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...other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.13 Such rhetoric soon acquired a life of its own, transmuting the "Jefferson image" into an antislavery... | |
 | 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...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal.... | |
 | Willie Lee Nichols Rose - History - 1999 - 558 pages
...conversation? "The whole commerce between master and slave," says our author himself, in another place, "is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions:...one part, and degrading submissions on the other." Surely, intercourse of this kind cannot be very improving to these people, nor ought their minds to... | |
 | Barbara Chase-Riboud - Fiction - 2000 - 366 pages
...determined that Thomas Jefferson would not be guilty of: the crime of miscegenation. MONTICELLO, 1815 The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...submissions on the other. Our children see this, and leam to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him.... | |
 | Robert Allison - History - 2000 - 304 pages
...Americans at home, particularly in the Southern states, would be offended by his candid opinions on slavery. "The whole commerce between master and slave...one part, and degrading submissions on the other." This described the relationship of master and slave in the United States but also the relationship,... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 276 pages
...striking. In XVIII ("Manners") Jefferson depicted a deeply divided state on the verge of civil war: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...one part, and degrading submissions on the other." The slaves clearly had no "amor patriae," no property in or loyalty to the country in which they labored;... | |
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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. 
