The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of…

Thomas Jefferson
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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. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). The Essential Jefferson, p.130, Hackett Publishing
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