 | Stephen E. Ambrose - History - 2002 - 289 pages
...Jefferson's chapter on slavery includes this passage: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy... | |
 | David Kazanjian - Social Science - 2003 - 334 pages
...exist in the colonies, and registers his terror of one: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 2003 - 276 pages
...1782 Notes on the State of Virginia. (WTJ III, 250) The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. 1782 Notes on the State... | |
 | Milton Meltzer - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 156 pages
...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,...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this and learn to imitate it ... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 pages
...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;...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.... | |
 | Ira Berlin - History - 2004 - 310 pages
...thereby attain a place atop American society. The history of slavery, as Thomas Jefferson observed, was "a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism."2 Violence, as Jefferson also understood, begat more violence as slaves refused to surrender... | |
 | 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... | |
 | History - 2004 - 502 pages
...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,...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. . . . The parent storms,... | |
 | Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck - History - 2004 - 368 pages
...Atlantic Monthly, vol. 279, no. 3 (March 1997), pp. 60-72. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... If a parent could find no motive either in his... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
