政治家们的政治生活依赖于奴隶制。
国父们的这种远见成为了主张自由是国家道德义务的基础，美国宪法是一份反奴隶制的文件。
This vision of the founders served as a basis for asserting that freedom was a national moral imperative, and that the United States Constitution was an antislavery document.
尽管如此，杰弗逊还是释放了赫明斯的孩子们，但赫明斯本人和杰弗逊的其他大约150个奴隶并没有得到释放。
Still Jefferson freed Hemings's children—though not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other slaves.
奴隶禁闭营的俘虏们通常被卖给奴隶贩子。
The captives in the barracoons were usually sold to slave traders.
总之，经过了数世纪的压迫和剥削，奴隶主们似乎值得进一步的奖励，似乎可以强行从普通无辜纳税人那里没收钱来奖励奴隶主！
In short, after centuries of oppression and exploitation, the slave masters were supposed to be further rewarded by a handsome sum mulcted by force from the mass of innocent taxpayers!
美国的改革家们，不论是出于什么动机，不论是为了废除奴隶制，禁止种族隔离或是要提高妇女的权利，都要向公众提到“人人生而平等”。
American reformers, whether what motive, whether to abolish slavery and racial segregation or to the improvement of women's rights to the public, "all men are created equal".
在南边各州，奴隶主们妄图确立一个他们自己的国家，在那里他们可以为所欲为地把黑人算做仆从。
In the Southern States the slave owners wanted to set up a country of their own, where they could freely keep black people as slaves.
上个月，国会女议员、茶党的宠儿，米歇尔·巴赫曼在艾奥瓦州说道，美国的建国元勋们“不屈不挠地奋斗到奴隶制解放的最后时刻”。
Last month Michele Bachmann, a congresswoman and tea-party favourite, told Iowans that America's Founding Fathers "worked tirelessly until slavery was no more".
白人奴隶主们却得到了钱。
我们现在对待动物的手段，经常被拿来跟前朝的奴隶主们相比较。
Comparisons are often made between the way we treat animals, and the way that the interests of slaves were ignored by slave-owners in previous centuries.
奴隶主们认为这些不同的体格特征是“低下的”。
The slave owner viewed these different physical features as "inferior."
奴隶主们认为这些不同的体格特征是“低下的”。
The slave owner viewed these different physical features as "inferior."
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