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Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII: Manners (1853 edition)

Thomas Jefferson · c. 1781–1787

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  1. 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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