Lincoln then defended his statement that the United States could not continue half slave and half free. He said he did not mean that customs or institutions must be the same in every state.

林肯随后为他有关美国不能再以一半是奴隶制一半是自由州的形式存在的声明辩护，他说，他的意思并不是说每个州的习俗或制度都必须一样。

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If you were forced to choose between being a well-fed slave and a hungry free person, what would it be?

如果你必须选择去做一个生活富裕的奴役或者一个饥饿的自由人，你会选哪个？

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Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free.

从鞭笞和刀剑溅起的血光中，我们领悟到，基于自由与平等原则所成立的联邦，不可能在半自由半奴役的状态下存活。

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Lincoln then defended his statement that the United States could not continue half slave and half free.

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So the status of slave was lowest, ; freed persons was next highest in Roman Law; and free people were next.

所以罗马律法中，奴隶的地位是最低的，然后是自由人;,接着是自由民。

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Well Pete, you see, there was this free labor system and this slave labor system," blah-blah blah-blah.

皮特你知道,当时北方是自由劳动制,而南方是奴役劳动制",等等,等等

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We reflect on the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago to mend a Nation half-slave and half-free under the unifying promise of liberty.

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We trace generations of African Americans, free and slave, who risked everything to realize their God-given rights.

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Many U.S. institutions were deliberately designed to tolerate the coexistence of free states and slave-owning states.

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