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

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In Alexis de Tocqueville's great Democracy in America, which he published in 1831,or published in 1837, after his famous nine-month tour of the United States the most famous book, travel book, ever written about America, by a foreigner.

亚利西斯·德·托克维尔的著作《美国民主》,在1831年,或者1837年出版,这是本他在美国周游了九个月之后,写成的游记,在所有由外国作家执笔,所著的关于美国的书中享有盛誉

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