 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 390 pages
...been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society: yet many have been so situated, they might have availed themselves of the conversation...the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 pages
...of them, indeed, have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society; yet many have been so situated, that they might have availed themselves of the conversation of their masters; 16 many have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated... | |
 | Jan Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 300 pages
...Most of them indeed have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society: yet many have been so situated, that they might have availed...the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...of them, indeed, have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society: yet many have been so situated, that they might have availed...the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries... | |
 | Willie Lee Nichols Rose - History - 1999 - 558 pages
...difference quite sufficient, to account for any seeming inferiority in their intellectual faculties? Why, "many of them have been so situated, that they might...themselves of the conversation of their masters." And, is it then the fact, that the conversation of their masters is so strongly saturated with intelligence,... | |
 | Gregory Stephens - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 348 pages
...1987), 50-51. "Black world of work": ibid., 48-50. Thomas Jefferson later observed that "many [slaves] have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites." Notes on the State of Virginia (New York (1785): Harper &... | |
 | Dan Ben-Amos, Liliane Weissberg - History - 1999 - 340 pages
...them have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society," he observed, "yet many have been so situated, that they might have availed themselves of the conversations of their masters." He noticed their ability in music, but expressed doubt that mastery... | |
 | Norm Ledgin - Asperger's syndrome - 2000 - 284 pages
...of them indeed have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, 75 and their own society: yet many have been so situated, that they might have availed...the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. That Jefferson should have believed the best hope for blacks... | |
 | Tim Fulford - Europe - 2002 - 334 pages
...America; most of them indeed have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society; yet many of them have been so situated, that they...the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites. Some have been liberally educated, and all have lived in countries... | |
 | Elaine Brown - Social Science - 2003 - 404 pages
...bruught to, and born in America. Most of them, indeed, have been confined to tillage. . . . Yet many have been so situated, that they might have availed themselves of the conversatlan of theit masters. . , . Some have been liberally educated . . . and all have had before... | |
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Most of them indeed have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society: yet many have been so situated that they might have availed themselves of the conversation of their masters; many have been brought up to the handicraft arts,... 
