...nation, familiarized to him by habit. There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among...submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn ta imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From...

...nation, familiarized to him by habit. There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on thfe one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Onr children see this, and learn to imitate...

...position, he had read sundry passages from Mr. Jefferson's Notes ; the most prominent were the following: " The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is...

...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...

..."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...

...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...animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him . . . The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."...

...Thomas Jefferson, writing in i785: There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among...learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. . . . The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs...

...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...one part, and degrading submissions on the other." He held that "nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be...

...listen to what one of them said: There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among...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...

...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...unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved...