One of the greatest of these writers was James Henry Hammond, a South Carolina planter who had plenty of mixed-race children.

其中最著名的一位是詹姆斯·亨利·哈蒙德,他是南卡罗莱纳州种植园主,膝下有众多混种子女

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But it was essentially a set of values, and it was a deeply rooted set of values in the planters' worldview.

说到底那是一种价值观,深深植根于,种植园主的世界观里

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There's one by an English traveler, he entitled it, "A Georgia Planter's Method of Spending Time."

其中有一个是英国游客写的,题目叫,《一位格鲁吉亚种植园主的消磨时间法》

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We now know, if we know anything about the Old South, the average American planter, the average American slaveholder, small ones and big ones, were raging capitalists.

如果我们对内战前的南方有所了解,就知道几乎每个种植园主,每个奴隶主,无论资产多少,都是精明的资本家

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It's okay, 'cuz them planters, they were raging capitalists just waitin' for you.

好吧,全都是因为这些种植园主,这些精明的资本家就等着你

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In the overall attitude of the planter class and the leadership class of the American South by the 1840s and 1850s, some were born to rule and some born to be ruled.

美国南方的19世纪40年代和50年代时,在普遍的种植园主阶级观念,和领导阶级观念中,有些人天生是统治者,有些人天生是被统治者

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He likened Charleston, South Carolina though this was in the 1780s he likened Charleston, South Carolina to what he called, quote, "The barbarous institutions and traits, especially slavery, the self-indulgence of the planters" and then he concludes "Just like Lima, Peru."

他把南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿比作,那是在十八世纪八十年代,他把南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿比作,"野蛮的制度和习性,尤其是奴隶制,种植园主们醉生梦死,自我放纵",然后他总结道,"就像秘鲁的利马一样"

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