...I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice can not sleep forever... The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execrations should the statesman be loaded who, permitting one half the citizens thus...

...of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. . . . The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." Philanthropy here means more than doing good, self-love more than pride, the children's presence more...

...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. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus...

...one pan, and degrading submission on the other; our children see this, and learn to imitate it ... The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus...

...an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. ... The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus...

...boisterous passions. the most unremitting despotism on the one pan. and degrading submissions on the other. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstance.179 At first. Jefferson proposed his emancipation schemes in the Virginia assembly: later...

...slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other ....manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. George Mason, a Virginia delegate, made the same point, without Jefferson's eloquence, at the Convention.44...

...it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus...

...looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated,...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. (Notes on the State of Virginia, 162) Poe goes one obvious step further, tracing the roots of white...

...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...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. This excoriation, which might almost have come from the pen of a militant abolitionist, was written...