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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. "
Echoes of Harper's Ferry ... - Page 443
edited by - 1860 - 513 pages
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An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of ..., Volume 3

William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 pages
...and daily exercifed in tyranny, cannot but be ftamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man muft be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by fuch circumffances. And with what execration fliould the flatefrnan be loaded, who, permitting one...
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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 pages
...and daily exercifed in tyranny, cannot but be ftamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man muft be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by fuch circuniftances. And with what execration ihould the ftatefman be loaded, who permitting one half...
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...an nnhap. . py 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...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degra-ding submissions on the oilier. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 31

1819 - 654 pages
...an unhappy in* fluence on the manners of the people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave, is a...unremitting 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....
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Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring ..., Volume 2

Thomas Ashe - 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,...the one part, and degrading submission on the other. To this benign and humane proceeding may be attributed the rapid prosperity of the State. Many of those...
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Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring ..., Volume 2

Thomas Ashe - 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,...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. To this benign and humane proceeding may be attributed the rapid prosperity...
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Struggles Through Life: Exemplified in the Various Travels and Adventures in ...

John Harriott - 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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Travels Through the Western Interior of the United States, from the Year ...

Henry Ker - 1816 - 392 pages
...thus educated, and daily practised in tyranny, he cannot but be stamped with its odious peculiarities. The man must .be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved under such circumstances. Exclusive of this, it begets a habit of indolence. This is so true, that...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 97

1825 - 798 pages
...be an unhappy influence on the manners of the people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it, for man is an imitative animal. The parent storms,...
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Arator: Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political: in ...

John Taylor - 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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