...manners of bur people, produced by the existence of slavery among us: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man it an imitative animal....

...by ME. JEFFERSON, in his Notes on Virginia. " The whole commerce between master and slave," says he, "is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. If a parent had no other motive, either in his own philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the...

...by ME. JEFFERSON, in his Notes on Virginia. " The whole commerce between master and slave," says he, "is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it j for man is an imitative animal. If a parent had no other motive, either in his own philanthropy or...

...Slavery-extension, the task of explaining it away. Mr. Jefferson says : — " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. * * * With the morals of the people, their industry also is destroyed. Indeed, I tremble for my country...

...the system in such a passage as this from his Notes on Virginia: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...Our children see this, and learn to imitate it... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the...

...agreed that slavery promotes antidemocratic habits and principles: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...the one part, and degrading submissions on the other . . . The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs...

...it seems that he had some concern for the slave. Thus he wrote: "[T]he whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...one part, and degrading submissions on the other." This sentence suggests that Jefferson may have been concerned about the effect of slavery on the slave....

...another." The effect on the masters is equally devastating, he said, for "the whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other." Slavery ruins family education, for the child begins to imitate his parent...

...manners of our 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 — the most unremitting despotism on one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it, for...

...our people produced by the existence of slavery among us" because the "whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism of the one part, and degrading submissions on the other" (288). The long-term effect of slavery as...