| William Thomas - Abolitionists - 1835 - 208 pages
...of the right to discuss the subject. " The whole commerce," says he, "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... | |
| William Thomas - Abolitionists - 1835 - 202 pages
...commerce," says he, "between master and slave, is a ^perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, 3he most unremitting despotism on the 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... | |
| Benjamin Godwin - Slavery - 1836 - 262 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.... | |
| La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1836 - 194 pages
...considered at conclusive evidence upon this point. " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on one part, and degrading submissions on the other. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...Appeal. SENTIMENTS OF STATESMEN. Thomas Jefferson, in 1782. *' The commerce between master and slnve is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...unremitting despotism on, the one part, and degrading submission on the oilier. Can the liberties of the nation be thought secure, when we have refused the... | |
| La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 160 pages
...CHARACTER OF SLAVEHOLDERS. Testimony of Thomas Jefferson. The whole commerce between master and slave, is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on one part, and degrading submissions on the other. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the... | |
| La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 156 pages
...CHARACTER OP SLAVEHOLDERS. Testimony of Thomas Jefferson. The whole commerce between master and slave, is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on one part, and degrading submissions on the other. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the... | |
| Alexander Trotter - Business & Economics - 1839 - 478 pages
...intimate acquaintance with its effects. " The whole commerce," he says, " 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... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1839 - 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 ; for man is an imitative animal. The parent storms,... | |
| Theodore Dwight Weld - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 236 pages
...sixth Philadelphia edition, p. 251, he says, — " 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 The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts... | |
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