By 1860 there were approximately 4,000,000 slaves in the United States, the second largest slave society slave population--in the world.

截至1860年,美国大约有,四百万的奴隶,也因此使之成为了,世界历史上的第二大奴隶社会

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It is a claim already, and as you've seen in Aristotle, towards the end of the history of the free polis, it is something necessary for mankind.

如你在亚里斯多德那里看到那样,在临近自由城邦历史的末期,这已经成为了一种宣言,这对人类来说是不可或缺的

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And by the 1820s and 1830s the American South became what I think you could safely say was the fifth slave society in human history; maybe the sixth. This is debatable.

自十九世纪二三十年代起,美国南方,绝对成为了,人类历史上的第五个奴隶社会,也可能是第六个,这仍然处于争议中

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That, he says, has been our history and what it should say, what it doesn't quite say I think, is that it has been this history not because it is American but because it is a republic, because of its regime type, its regime character.

的共和国，他说，那已经成为了我们的历史,它应该被说成，我认为言下之意是,它已经成为这种历史并非因为它是美国人的,而是因为它是个共和国，因为,它的政权类型，它的政权性质。

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