他们说，的确，1850年妥协案给予了犹他州和新墨西哥州人民就奴隶制问题自己决定的权利，但该妥协案并没有将这同样的权利授予未来所获得领土上的人民。

True, they said, the compromise gave the people of Utah and New Mexico the right to decide about slavery. But they said it did not give that right to the people of all future territories.

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直到今天两个地区间仍会就南部脱离奴隶制度保护州的权利以及自由贸易权利产生争执不下。

To this day there is an argument raging between the two areas over whether the south seceded to maintain slavery or to protect states' rights, and the idea of free trade.

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例如，在一个宣传人人生而平等，出生时即享有天赋的生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利的国度怎么还存在奴隶制。

For example, how could slavery exist in a nation whose people declared that "all men are created equal" and with a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

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How successful was the cotton boom, how important was the cotton boom, what is the relationship between the spread of slavery, the spread of cotton, and power?

棉花业的兴盛是如何的成功,如何的重要,奴隶制的传播,与棉花业的兴盛,以及权利的扩散之间有什么关系

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The answer is that he can, and actually does, hold property in his fellow, all over the world, in a variety of forms, and has always done so."

但是事实上他可以,他完全有权利,把他的奴隶当作财产,甚至在全世界范围,不管以何种形式,他一直是那么做的

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