这些契约仆人在将自己的时间卖给美国雇主的期间被当作奴隶对待。

These indentured servants were treated as slaves for the period during which they had sold their time to American employers.

youdao

我是说，如果你上法院，奴隶当然不能在法庭上代表自己。他们没有任何法律地位。

I mean when you go to court, slaves, of course, can't represent themselves in court at all. They don't have any legal standing.

youdao

我不记得曾遇到过一个能说出自己生日的奴隶。

I do not remember having ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday.

youdao

Now when you go to jail-- I mean when you go to court, slaves of course can't represent themselves in court at all, they don't have any legal standing.

如果你进监狱。。。,我是说如果你上法院，奴隶当然不能在法庭上代表自己，他们没有任何法律地位。

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He urged revival of the slave-trade in the late 1850s, and he developed a theory of what he called warranteeism--w-a-r-r-a-n-t-e-e-I-s-m.

他促成了十八世纪五十年代后期,奴隶交易的复苏,还自己发明了一套理论,名为抵押品主义

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And when he goes picking in the cotton fields, he imagines that he could be a slave.

当他去采棉花的时候，他把自己想象成一个奴隶。

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