These teachers of nothing do more good than you: they make us slaves, and you know that according to your master, all higher culture must be based upon slavery.

那些什么东西也没有的老师会做得比你好许多：他们为我们制造出所需的畜群。 你知道，根据你导师的思想，所有较高的文化必须建立在畜群基础上。

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Toni Morrison sets the novel 's background in the colonist period before slavery was established. The novel reflects the author' s meditations on the women 's life transcending RACES and culture.

莫里森把小说的背景放在奴隶制还未完全建立的殖民地时期，体现了她对超越种族和文化的女性人生的思考。

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Slavery was an aspect of classical culture which had its defenses.

奴隶制作为古典文化的一部分也有人为它辩护。

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But what eventually evolved in the South and we will return to this a good deal next Tuesday when I'll devote an entire lecture to this kind of slaveholder worldview and the pro-slavery argument the pro-slavery defense and how that evolved into a political culture.

但南方特点究竟是如何形成的这个问题,下周二我们会细细讲,那时我将花整堂课的时间讲,奴隶主的世界观和其支持奴隶制的理由,他们对奴隶制的支持,和奴隶制是如何演变为一种政治文化的

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Originalism is the Constitutional doctrine that the founding document should be construed today as it must have been understand at the time it was drafted regardless of the massive changes in government, society and culture since that time, including the abolition of slavery, an issue on which the founders compromised.

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The Palmares Cultural Foundation together with the UNESCO Slave Route Project hold from the 20th to the 23rd of August 2012 in Brasilia (Brazil), an international seminar entitled "Heritage, Identity and Culture: management of sites and places of memory related to the slave trade and slavery" which brought together experts in charge of the most significant sites and places of memory linked to this tragedy.

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