相反，南方的奴隶主误认为9世纪30年代的废奴主义观点是主流，而不是北方边缘的公众意见，于是他们普遍谴责北方人反对奴隶制。

Instead, Southern slaveholders misconstrued abolitionist views of the 1830s as mainstream rather than marginal Northern public opinion, and castigated Northerners generally for opposing slavery.

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格泰斯认为，由于南方的奴隶制妨碍了个人自治和对物质利益的自由追求，北方的主要改革者早在19世纪30年代就反对奴隶制。

Gerteis argues that, since slavery in the South precluded individual autonomy and the free pursuit of material gain, major Northern reformers opposed it as early as the 1830s.

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更重要的是，他们认为许多开国元勋都知道奴隶制是错误的，但大多数人却没有采取什么行动来反对它。

More significantly, they argue that many of the Founding Fathers knew slavery was wrong—and yet most did little to fight it.

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Objection number two, it's not really slavery to tax because at least in a democratic society it's not a slave holder.

第二条反对意见，征税算不上是奴隶制,因为至少在民主社会,不存在奴隶主。

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