 | Thelma Wills Foote - History - 2004 - 344 pages
...rapist and 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... | |
 | William Wells Brown - Fiction - 2003 - 324 pages
...against slavery in the legislature of Virginia, said, "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. With what execration should the statesman be loaded who, permitting one half... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Economics - 2004 - 472 pages
...slightest, his most unreasonable, bidding. " The commerce between master and slave," says a slaveowner, "is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions — the most unremitting despotism on the one hand, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ... The... | |
 | Susan Dunn - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 396 pages
...emancipation" along with his description of the master-slave relationship as a perpetual exercise of "the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other"? Had he forgotten that he had wanted to exclude slavery entirely from the trans-Appalachian West in... | |
 | Rhys Isaac - History - 2004 - 448 pages
...against the effects of slavery on the slave owners. 'The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on one part, the most degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this and learn to imitate it.... | |
 | Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, Anand A. Yang - History - 2005 - 268 pages
...the personality of the 94 slave owners. He observed, "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... | |
 | James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton - History - 2004 - 258 pages
...ledger lists some of the slaves whom Thomas Jefferson owned in 1 774. Yet he once wrote that slavery "is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...one part, and degrading submissions on the other." napped these African people, Jefferson claimed, and had bound "them into slavery in another hemisphere"... | |
 | Garry Wills - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 298 pages
...Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII: "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... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 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. This quality is the... | |
 | Brian Weiner - Political Science - 2009 - 258 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. This quality is 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. 
