While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery, they also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to create.

虽然华盛顿和杰斐逊私下里表达了对奴隶制的厌恶，但他们也明白，奴隶制是他们帮助建立的这个国家的政治和经济基础的一部分。

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It is the first time that the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), whose rulings are binding, has heard a case of slavery.

这也是裁决具有约束力的西非国家经济共同体的社区司法法庭第一次受理奴役的案子。

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They wanted to continue their economic system based on agriculture and slavery.

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then there's a whole array of economic arguments, and the cynic, the economic determinist, simply goes to the economic conclusions of pro-slavery and nowhere else.

于是有了一系列的经济学论据,愤世嫉俗地经济决定论者,单纯的从经济角度出发,来支持亲奴主义者

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Now, just to give you a sense of how cold and calculated this business was, and how in many ways the first defense or justification of slavery in America is of course it certainly is by the late Antebellum Period it is an unabashed economic defense, as we'll see.

以上只是为了让你们体会到,这种交易是如何的冷酷而精明,以及战前后期第一次,美国奴隶制度的保卫与正名之战,不管怎么看,都毫无疑问,是一场赤裸裸的利益保卫战,正如我们所见

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Brown, an Alabama native and daughter of a sharecropper, raised the hackles of some Democrats in her 2005 nomination hearings for her comparisons of liberal economic policies with slavery.

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On top of the day-to-day drama, romance and business dealings, the series also tackled social and economic issues of the time, such as slavery.

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But the grip of slavery on the slave holders went beyond economic and political power.

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