And once we rid ourselves of the burden of historicity, we're free to appreciate the stories for what they are: powerful, powerful narratives that must be read against the literary conventions of their time, and whose truths are social, political, moral and existential.

曾经我们将自己从史实性的负担中解放出来，我们,以故事原本的样子自由地欣赏它们：强大的，强大的叙事,必须能冲破那个时代的文学惯例和社会、政治、,道德及实存的真实而被解读。

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But in their worldview, the pro-slavery worldview, ideas like freedom and liberty were simply never absolutes, and many of them will directly reverse Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and simply say, "Nobody is born equal."

但是在他们的世界观中,亲奴主义者的世界观中,自由和解放的理想永远不是绝对的,他们中许多人,直接颠覆了托马斯杰斐逊的独立宣言,他们说,没有人是生来平等的

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