Thomas Jefferson quote about slavery from Notes on the State of Virginia - 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.
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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. ”
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Author Thomas Jefferson
Source Notes on the State of Virginia
Topic slavery despotism submission
Date 1785
Language English
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Thomas Jefferson quote about slavery from Notes on the State of Virginia - 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.
Thomas Jefferson quote about slavery from Notes on the State of Virginia - 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.