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" For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another... "
An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the ... - Page 205
by William Winterbotham - 1795 - 485 pages
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Clotel: or, The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown - Fiction - 2003 - 324 pages
...part, and the amor patriae of the other! For if the slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another; in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours...
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The Founders on Religion: A Book of Quotations

James H. Hutson - Reference - 2009 - 288 pages
...(online edition), Columbia University Library. If a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another. ... I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever:...
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Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South

Adam Rothman - History - 2005 - 324 pages
...Slaves could have no patriotism, he warned, for "if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another."7' White Americans' fears became more acute in the 17905, when the slaves of St. Domingue...
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American Political Rhetoric: A Reader

Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 pages
...one part, and the amorpatriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another; in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends...
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Opportunity: Optimizing Life's Chances

Donald Morris - Philosophy - 2006 - 470 pages
...Slavery, paternalism, and the custodial state "For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another."65 — Thomas Jefferson As we saw, Aristotle viewed slavery is a natural condition, because...
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Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought

Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...one part, and the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours...
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All Honor to Jefferson?: The Virginia Slavery Debates and the Positive Good ...

Erik S. Root - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 268 pages
...any other in preference to that in which he is bom to live and labour for another; in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavors to the evanishment of the human race, or entail his own miserable condition on the endless...
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Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 16

United States - 1819 - 652 pages
...one part, and the amor patria: of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, itmnst be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another: in which he must lock tip the faculties of his nature, contribute as far a* depends...
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