But a framework in which to understand it is that pro-slavery ideology was, at its heart, a kind of deeply conservative, organic worldview.

支撑奴隶制度思想体系的框架,若要去理解这副框架的话,其核心,是某种极度传统,接近自然的世界观

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One of the things that come with the development of this kind of agriculture as the polis is coming into being is slavery.

这种小家庭农业的发展,是随着各城邦开始采用,奴隶制度而发展起来的

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Why did an inhumane institution of course not everybody who defended it thought it was inhumane but why did that system survive, persist and grow?

为什么一个不人道的制度,当然不是所有捍卫它的人都觉得不人道,为什么奴隶制度还是会生根,发芽,成长

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How would you have had the great Greek playwrights, they would argue, without the system, the world the Greeks were able to create with the Helots?

还有伟大的古希腊戏剧家是怎样来的,没有这个制度,希腊人怎能用奴隶创造昔日的繁荣

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In an 1850s anti-slavery speech she said, among other things, this conclusion in effect, she's answer the question now, "Why has slavery boomed and persisted and grows still?"

她在1850年反奴隶制演讲中说过,这段很精辟,在所有论述中尤为抢眼,她给出了问题的答案,"为何奴隶制度仍然能够蓬勃发展呢"

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Almost all pro-slavery writers at one point or another will dip into the Old Testament, or dip into the New Testament they especially would dip to the Old to show how slavery is an ancient and venerable institution.

几乎所有的亲奴主义作家,都或多或少地接触过《旧约》,或阅读过《新约》,特别是《旧约》,因为他们,需要证明奴隶制是一个古老而庄严的制度

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He likened Charleston, South Carolina though this was in the 1780s he likened Charleston, South Carolina to what he called, quote, "The barbarous institutions and traits, especially slavery, the self-indulgence of the planters" and then he concludes "Just like Lima, Peru."

他把南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿比作,那是在十八世纪八十年代,他把南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿比作,"野蛮的制度和习性,尤其是奴隶制,种植园主们醉生梦死,自我放纵",然后他总结道,"就像秘鲁的利马一样"

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One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

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Now, just to give you a sense of how cold and calculated this business was, and how in many ways the first defense or justification of slavery in America is of course it certainly is by the late Antebellum Period it is an unabashed economic defense, as we'll see.

以上只是为了让你们体会到,这种交易是如何的冷酷而精明,以及战前后期第一次,美国奴隶制度的保卫与正名之战,不管怎么看,都毫无疑问,是一场赤裸裸的利益保卫战,正如我们所见

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Alexander H. Stephens, a Georgian, a slaveholder, said the cornerstone of the Confederacy, the cornerstone of their political movement, was what he called "American Negro slavery."

亚历山大· H·斯蒂芬斯,一个来自乔治亚州的奴隶主,用他的演讲为邦联打下了基石,这块邦联政治运动的基石,被他称为,"美国的黑人奴隶制度"

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