Objection number two, it's not really slavery to tax because at least in a democratic society it's not a slave holder.

第二条反对意见，征税算不上是奴隶制,因为至少在民主社会,不存在奴隶主。

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Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

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For the first time"--this was, of course, the French aristocrat de Tocqueville "For the first time we have had the chance to examine the effect that slavery produces on a society.

第一次",这位托克维尔即是,法国的那位贵族德·托克维尔,"第一次我们有机会仔细观察,奴隶制对一个社会造成的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Where slavery affected everything about society.

在这个社会里一切事物都被奴隶制所影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And if you want to understand why so many white Southerners, especially in the Deep South, went to such great extents to save their slave society, remember the kinds of arguments and language used by its defenders.

如果你们想知道为何如此多的南方白种人,特别是南方腹地的人们,想要最大程度地保住他们的奴隶制社会,那就揣摩一下这些辩护者所使用的论断,和他们的语言,措辞

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