Many men fought for the abolition of slavery.

许多人废止奴隶而奋斗。

For one thing, the South could not afford to part with its slaves.

一方面，南方各州无法同废除奴隶。

And the statesmen's political lives depended on slavery.

政治家的政治生命也取决于奴隶。

I am a victim of modern day slavery, she says.

她说，我是现代奴隶的受害者。

The issue of slavery was a major reason for the nation's civil war in the 1860s.

奴隶是1860美国内战的主要原因。

Abraham Lincoln was active in politics and strongly against slavery.

亚伯拉罕? 林肯积极从事政治活动，强烈反对奴隶。

Modern day slavery isn't always the same as the images you see in textbooks.

现代奴隶并不总是和你在教科书上看到的景象一样。

Many of them had not even believed in slavery and they thought this was far worse than slavery had ever been.

中有些人原来就不相信奴隶，现在他们这种比过去的奴隶还要坏得多。

This was supposed to be in contrast to Uncle Tom's Cabin, which he thought had treated to slavery too harshly.

这和《汤姆叔叔的小屋》形成了鲜明的对比 布·西科对待奴隶的态太苛刻了。

The Revolution in the Slave System.

奴隶的革命。

Oh why? Because of society? Because of slavery?

那怪谁呢 怪社会吗 还是奴隶？

Would the end of slavery have happened without Jesus' command to love one's neighbor as oneself?

没有耶稣爱人如己的命令，奴隶怎会终结？

This kind of evasive language shows how characters are desperate to cover up the region's intolerable history of genocide and slavery.

这种回避性的语言显示了角色们急于掩盖该地区不可容忍的种族灭绝和奴隶的史。

The South had long been rich in natural resources, but the slave system had been unfavorable to their development.

南方长期以来自然资源丰富，但奴隶一直不利于他们的发展。

One of the things that Madison was against was the institution of slavery, of the owning of other human beings.

麦迪逊反对的中一件事是奴隶，即拥有他人的。

It was not until after Lincoln was murdered, however, that the states approved the Thirteenth Amendment to ban slavery everywhere in the country.

然而，直至林肯被谋杀后，各州才通过了第十三条修正案，彻底废除奴隶。

Heston played the Egyptian prince who learns his true identity and leads the Hebrew people out of slavery in Egypt to the promised land.

赫斯顿扮演的埃及王子了解了自己的真实身份，带领希伯来人从埃及的奴隶中走出来，来到应许之地。

Once in office, Jefferson extended slavery with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; the new land was carved into 13 states, including three slave states.

入主白宫之后的 1803 ，杰弗逊通过购买路易斯安那州扩大了奴隶，这片土地后来被划分了 13个州，中包括 3个蓄奴州。

So begins " Beloved, " Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the suffering wrought by slavery and the wounds that persist in its wake.

托妮·莫里森获得普利策奖的小说《宠儿》就是这样开头的，它讲述了奴隶带来的痛苦和持续的创伤。

As long as the slave system lasted and planting was the major interest, the South was bound to be sectional in character.

——只要奴隶持续存在并且种植业是主要利益，南方就注定是分裂的。