虽然遭受残酷虐待，黑奴并不便宜。

Though brutally mistreated, slaves were not cheap.

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其中一个出生于黑奴解放四年之后。

One was born four years after emancipation, suggesting that the liaison that produced those children endured after slavery.

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这种自由是建立在对黑奴的压迫之上的。

That freedom is achieved on the backs of the black slaves.

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Instead he develops a highly intricate theory of how he's going to use slavery to save black people.

但他发明了一套非常复杂的理论,是关于如果通过奴隶制解放黑奴的

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Ads in newspapers, like this one in Charleston, would read, "Negroes wanted. I am paying the highest cash prices for young and likely Negroes, those having good front teeth and being otherwise sound."

报纸上的广告,比如查尔斯顿市的这一则,是这么写的,"诚购黑奴,本人愿付最高价格,购买年轻可靠之黑奴,需有整洁的牙齿以及悦耳的声音"

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He carves down the forest, he begins to cultivate the land and he declares what you got to have for success in the South is "A house, some land and some niggers."

他命令奴隶们砍倒树木,他开始翻耕这片土地,同时他声称,在南方,成功就必须要有,"一栋房子,一片土地和一些黑奴"

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