 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pages
...one part, and the amor patriot of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours... | |
 | Jan Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - 1999 - 300 pages
...one part, and the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours... | |
 | Willie Lee Nichols Rose - 1999 - 558 pages
...one part, and the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 pages
...one part and the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 276 pages
...population could have no "amor patriae," "for if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another."7 The blacks and whites of Virginia were two distinct nations whose natural relationship was... | |
 | Olaudah Equiano - 2001 - 340 pages
...one part, and the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another: in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavours... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 316 pages
...of Jefferson's notion of a proper manumission: "If a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another." Jefferson supported colonization even as he understood that the cost of moving so many people to Africa... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 pages
...themselves have been trampled on, he says, and if a slave can ever have a country in this world, "it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another." The effect on the masters is equally devastating, he said, for "the whole commerce... | |
 | John T. Noonan - 2002 - 236 pages
...enemies and destroyed their love of country: "For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another." To the objection of national security, he added that of religion or ideology: "And can the liberties... | |
 | Paul C. Metcalf - 2002 - 290 pages
...one part, and the amor patriae of the other. For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another; in which he must lock up the faculties of his nature, contribute as far as depends... | |
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For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another... 
