...example, when he observed that administering punishments to slaves inevitably depraved their master: "The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances";24 and it is part of what later abolitionists meant too, when they insisted that owning...

...City (and reputed to be Alexander Hamilton's son), referred to Jefferson's statement that the white man "must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved" by slaveowning. Hamilton asked rhetorically, "But what station above the common employment of craftsmen...

...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. 33. Painter, "Soul Murder and Slavery," 131 . 34. Painter, "Soul Murder and Slavery," 134. 35. Painter,...

...when he noted that slave ownership "nursed, educated and daily exercised" habits of tyranny so that "the man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances." Outside observers condemned Jamaicans for their brutality, wondering if residence in "the Torrid Zone"...

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

...and Revelry in Early America (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002), 45. not but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The...can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.8 That Jefferson knew exactly the extent and nature of that tyranny may be evidenced...

...it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. calamitys which woud be brought upon us by such an attempt, it woud cost our mother And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus...

...all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. . . . The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the...manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. (162) Schooled in Aristotelian psychology to view humans as mimetic creatures, Jefferson wrote an almost...

...one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it... and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny,...can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.1 The panel's second sentence as arranged by Padover seems a pious plea to pay tribute...

...Children see the "unremitting despotism" of the master and the "degrading submissions of the slave" and "thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in...can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances."3 Why Ledyard never saw the parallel between the effects of despotism and the effects...