 | David McCullough - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 883 pages
..."worth diamonds." most impassioned denunciations of his life, decrying slavery as an extreme depravity: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions [Jefferson had written], the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...both for its degradation of the slave and its encouragement of callousness and cruelty in the master: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other." He held that "nothing is more certainly written... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 376 pages
...our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion. Query XVII, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it;... | |
 | Paul C. Metcalf - History - 2002 - 290 pages
...be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this and learn to imitate it;... | |
 | Gary Hart - Political Science - 2002 - 305 pages
...moral basis for his opposition to slavery — that it both corrupts the master and debases the slave: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners... | |
 | John T. Noonan - History - 2002 - 236 pages
...preceded by one both social and personal, cast in terms of Jefferson's most prized value, education: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it,... | |
 | Seymour Bernard Sarason - Education - 2002 - 305 pages
...be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting depotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this and learn to... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - History - 2002 - 289 pages
...his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson's chapter on slavery includes this passage: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous pasTO AMERICA 3 sions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on... | |
 | John Hope Franklin - History - 2002 - 340 pages
...1782. In his Notes on Virginia he observed that the whole relationship between master and slave was "a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part; and degrading submissions on the other." Even worse, the slaveowner's child imitates... | |
 | David Kazanjian - Social Science - 2003 - 336 pages
...that two discrete revolutionary possibilities exist in the colonies, and registers his terror of one: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. ... of the proprietors of slaves a very small... | |
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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. 
