He believed in a strong central state, which was a real departure for him from the rest of the pro-slavery writers.

他坚信有个强大的中央政府,在亲奴主义作家中,他的理论着实是个大飞跃

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His grandmother is washing him and his brother in the tub, and she's washing his butt, and he says to her, "When you're finished, kiss back there."

他祖母帮他擦屁股时，他兄弟也在浴缸里，他对祖母说，：,“洗完澡你要亲我的屁股，“

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That is to say as a reward for bravery, exhibited bravery, the hero should be allowed to kiss anyone they like while they are on patrol, male or female.

这也就是说,勇敢的奖赏，意即展现出的勇敢，英雄应被允许在他们执行侦察时,亲任何人的嘴，无论是男是女。

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In 1855 an anthology of pro-slavery writings was published in the South.

在1855年,一本关于亲奴的文选,在南方出版了

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He was in some ways the epitome of the kind of cynical pro-slavery.

在某些方面他是一个典型,愤世嫉俗的亲奴分子

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As early as 1826 an important pro-slavery writer named Edward Brown argued that "Slavery," he said, quote: "Had ever been the stepping ladder by which nations have passed from barbarism to civilization."

早在1826年,一位重要的亲奴主义作家,爱德华·布朗说过,"奴隶制,曾是帮助那些国家从野蛮时期,发展到文明社会的阶梯"

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Thomas R. Dew, a very important pro-slavery writer, who wrote a whole book in the wake of the state of Virginia's debates in 1831 and '32 over whether to re-write its Constitution.

托马斯·德夫,一个非常重要的亲奴主义作家,曾在弗吉尼亚州于1831和32年开展的,关于是否重写其宪法的辩论之后,撰写过一本书

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But in their worldview, the pro-slavery worldview, ideas like freedom and liberty were simply never absolutes, and many of them will directly reverse Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and simply say, "Nobody is born equal."

但是在他们的世界观中,亲奴主义者的世界观中,自由和解放的理想永远不是绝对的,他们中许多人,直接颠覆了托马斯杰斐逊的独立宣言,他们说,没有人是生来平等的

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There are plenty of pro-slavery writers who also, to some extent, whether out of guilt or out of awareness, saw slavery as wrong, but they saw it as a problem more for white people than for black people.

还有一些亲奴制的作者,在某种程度上,或不知廉耻或未曾意识到,他们错误地看待了奴隶制,他们更看重奴隶制对白人的影响,而不是对黑人种族本身的影响

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