By the 1830s,1840s, there were over 100 men in Charleston, South Carolina alone, making their livings full-time as slave traders.

到了十九世纪三四十年代,仅仅在南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿地区,就有超过一百个,专职从事奴隶贸易的奴隶交易商

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About two-thirds of those went by outright sale, by financial speculation, in now a growing huge American business of the domestic slave trade.

大约有三分之二的人都被,金融投机所买断,被投入一个日益庞大的,国内奴隶贸易的美国商业市场

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But as the foreign slave trade was cut off the domestic American slave trade absolutely boomed.

但当海外奴隶贸易被终止之后,美国国内的奴隶交易反而蓬勃发展起来

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Richmond, Virginia, for example, became a huge slave-trading center by the 1840s and 1850s.

比如里士满和弗吉尼亚,在十九世纪四十年代和五十年代,它们成为了巨大的奴隶贸易中心

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Other cities became major ports or places of deportation, for the domestic slave trade.

另一些城市则成为了国内奴隶贸易的,主要港口和奴隶被驱逐出境的地区

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Now, there were other localized slave societies, surely; certainly within Africa, to a certain degree even before Europeans arrived and certainly after Europeans arrived, particularly after the regularization of the Atlantic slave trade.

除此之外当然还有很多小区域奴隶社会,非洲当然有,甚至是原始欧洲,欧洲现代人到来后当然更多,特别是在,大西洋奴隶贸易合法化之后

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Probably the best book written on this, particularly on the language of the domestic slave trade, is Walter Johnson's book called Soul by Soul, a book-- I highly recommend you read it sometime in your reading lives.

也许有一本书描写这点最生动,特别是在记述国内奴隶贸易的语言上,是沃尔特·约翰逊所著的,《灵魂的灵魂》这本书,我强烈建议在你的读书生涯中加进这本书

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