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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.
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This quote captures Sumner's view of the brutal dynamics inherent in the master-slave relationship.
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