 | Jeffrey Robert Young - History - 2006 - 280 pages
...proslavery bent. In the 1780s, for example, Thomas Jefferson conceded that plantation slavery amounted to "a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting des-potism on the one, and degrading submissions on the other." Like the Georgia trustees a half-century earlier, Jefferson... | |
 | Matthew Guillen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 688 pages
...supporting the "outcomes" he favors, is found in his elegiac references to Jefferson's condemning slavery as "a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism [...]" where only a "prodigy" 24 Rakove. 92 could "retain his manners and morals undepraved by such... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - Religion - 2007 - 266 pages
...corrupts society and clearly contradicts God's will. "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... | |
 | Johannes Steffens - 2007 - 49 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 Andererseits versucht er aber die These der Überlegenheit der... | |
 | James W. Loewen - Education - 2007 - 464 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... and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in... | |
 | Anna-Lisa Cox - Social Science - 2007 - 300 pages
...the role of people from Africa in America — wrote, "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions....one part, and degrading submissions on the other." He was aware that this was a system that corrupted both the enslaved and the enslaver, a system that... | |
 | Robert Pierce Forbes - History - 2009 - 380 pages
...people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slaves is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions;...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. . . . The man must be a prodigy who can retain his morals and manners undepraved by such circumstances.'"... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is broken, the people of England are Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the... | |
 | John Patrick Diggins - History - 2008 - 323 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. From his cradle to... | |
 | Michael Warren - History - 2007 - 235 pages
...course, was rank hypocrisy. Jefferson admitted that "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." Moreover, the slavery perpetrated by the colonists was more dreadful than... | |
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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. 
