adj. slaveholding
南方各州想要保留允许他们拥有奴隶的法律。
The southern states wanted to keep the laws that allowed them to own slaves.
《一个不完美的上帝:乔治·华盛顿、他的奴隶和美国的诞生》一书的作者温塞克说,拥有奴隶“就像拥有一个巨额的银行账户”。
Owning slaves was " like having a large bank account, " says Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America.
泰勒是一位奴隶拥有者。但他认为加利福尼亚和新墨西哥都应该是自由州。
Taylor was a slaveholder. But he believed that both California and New Mexico should be free states.
And he writes, for example, to Mary: "I am moreover undecided whether I ought to continue to hold slaves."
于是他便写给玛丽,比如这段,"我无法确定,我是否该继续拥有那些奴隶"
About one-third of Southern white families at one time or another had at least a toehold in slave ownership.
大约三分之一的南方白人家庭,在某一段时期至少都拥有过奴隶
And, at one point in time, he laments the end of the old Latin world and the B.C. world, when people could have these child slaves.
在某一时刻,他为拉丁时代和公元前时代的结束而哀悼,那时人们可以拥有小孩做奴隶。
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