 | Michael Rogin - 1985 - 374 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. 14 Shipboard slavery, in Melville's account, placed the lash in the hands of young boys. threats of... | |
 | Richard R. Beeman, Stephen Botein, Edward Carlos Carter, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) - 1987 - 380 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities." Jefferson's Notes was available in the United Stares by the time of the convention. 79. Farrand, ed,... | |
 | Philip Greven - 1988 - 449 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities." No doubt Jefferson was right. But the presence of slaves in the genteel household also had another... | |
 | Lewis Perry - 1989 - 479 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities." Instead of decorous hierarchy, Jefferson depicted a world of "unremitting despotism" and "degrading... | |
 | Wai Chee Dimock - 1989 - 268 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities." Slavery was its own retribution, then, as it enforced mimesis within the family, as it "stamped" the... | |
 | Jack Mclaughlin - 1990 - 496 strani
...elegance of Monticello was made possible by an institution he publicly condemned. Although he wrote that a "man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved" by slavery, it is highly unlikely that he felt depraved because he was a slaveholder. Exactly what his... | |
 | William W. Freehling - 1990 - 660 strani
...aristocrats to be sexually licentious, to be irresponsibly lazy, to be odiously tyrannical. The gentleman "must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."6 Gentlemen's unnatural attempt to preserve an unbalanced class foundation would lead... | |
 | Michael James Lacey, Knud Haakonssen - 1992 - 492 strani
...boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners...citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other" (p. 288). In his sixth annual message to Congress Jefferson characterizes the slave trade as a "violation... | |
 | Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - 1993 - 380 strani
...circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it...can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."62 Under a system of slavery, Jefferson pointed out, half the population is forced to... | |
 | Daniel John McInerney - 1994 - 256 strani
...passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. . . . The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."11 Abolitionists cited Jefferson's comments to show the relation of morality and law... | |
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The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by... 
