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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. "
Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ... - Page 219
by Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 363 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 31

1819 - 654 pages
...fear. " There must doubtless " (says Mr Jefferson), " be an unhappy in* fluence on the manners of the people, produced by the existence of slavery among...despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions onthe other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. The parent...
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Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring ..., Volume 2

Thomas Ashe - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1803 - 402 pages
...The act immediately destroyed the whole commerce and distinction between master and slave, which was a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. To this benign and humane proceeding may be attributed the rapid prosperity...
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Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring ..., Volume 2

Thomas Ashe - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1808 - 310 pages
...The act immediately destroyed the whole commerce and distinction between master and slave, which was a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. To this benign and humane proceeding may be attributed the rapid prosperity of the State. Many...
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Struggles Through Life: Exemplified in the Various Travels and Adventures in ...

John Harriott - Adventure and adventurers - 1808 - 780 pages
...equally if not more applicable to the West-India islands. The whole commerce between master and slare is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting haughtiness on the one part and degrading submission on the other. The children see this and learn...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 97

English literature - 1825 - 798 pages
...same effects in our colonies. " There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of the people, produced by the existence of slavery among...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....
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Arator: Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political: in ...

John Taylor - Agriculture - 1817 - 228 pages
...Virginia is right in the following quotations. "The whole commerce between master and slave" says he " is a perpetual exercise of the " most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despo" tism on one part, and degrading submissions on the " other. The parent storms, the child looks...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 344 pages
...the man. "There must doubtless," (says Mr. Jefferson,) "be an unhappy influence on the manners of the people, produced by the existence of slavery among...on the one part, and degrading Submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it, for man is an imitative .auimal. The parent...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 944 pages
...doubt" less," (says Mr. Jefferson,) " be an unhappy " influence on the manners of the people, pro" duced by the existence of slavery among us. •' The whole...the most " boisterous passions; the most unremitting des. " potism on the one part, and degrading sub" missions on the other. Our children see this, " and...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 564 pages
...unhappy '' influence on the manners of the people, pro" duced by the existence of slavery among u*. *' The whole commerce between master and " slave, is...the most "boisterous passions; the most unremitting des" potism on the one part, and degrading sub" missions on the other. Our children see this, " and...
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Trial of the Rev. Jacob Gruber: Minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church ...

David Martin - Slavery - 1819 - 124 pages
...his notes upon Virginia, he thusVrites, — "There must, doubtless, be an unhappy influence on »he manners of our people, produced by the existence of...the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degraded submission on the other." Again, "With what execration should the statesman be loaded, who,...
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