Supporters of slavery wanted to organize a constitutional convention that could put Kansas into the Union as a slave state.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
If the South was a slave society and we tried to demonstrate that last time, we tried to define that.
如果南方是奴隶社会,我们上次已经证明过了,我们也定义过了
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。
It was the same town where abolitionist John Brown had tried to start a slave rebellion a few years before.
VOA: special.2009.08.20
If a slave dies you got to buy a new machine, and while he's alive you got to feed him.
如果一个奴隶死掉了,你就得买台新的,他活着时你还要养着他
The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.
VOA: special.2009.04.30
For example, they might-- paterfamilias would often put a slave up in business, give a slave enough money to run a business.
比如,他们可能。。。,家长通常会让奴隶参与生意,给他一笔钱做生意。
He said it would be best to let the people themselves decide if New Mexico would be a slave or free state.
VOA: special.2009.03.12
All of those slave societies had a population of slaves that was from one-quarter to one-half, and sometimes more, of the total population.
这些奴隶社会的奴隶人口都占总人口,的三分之一到一半,有时甚至更多
They accused him of trying to create a slave rebellion in states he could not occupy with troops.
VOA: special.2009.10.08
That's in Exodus 21:26-27. Moreover, the slave is entitled to the Sabbath rest and all of the Sabbath legislation. And quite importantly, a fugitive slave cannot be returned to his master.
这是在《出埃及记》第21章26-27节的描述,另外,奴隶有权,享受安息日的休息和所有关于安息日的法规,十分,重要的一点是,逃亡的奴隶不能再被归还给他的主人。
As we reported in our last program, slavery supporters failed to push through Congress a bill to make Kansas a slave state.
VOA: special.2009.05.28
He's playing with Freudian slips. Of course, what he's thinking about all the time is the master-slave game, and so here it comes out, when he's talking about his brother's diving: "He's a master diver. You really have to slave away at it."
他在开Freudian滑倒的玩笑,当然,他一直想的是,主人-奴隶的游戏,当谈到他兄弟的潜水时,他提到了:,“他是个跳水能手,你真得埋头苦干拼命练习这个了“
In the past,he noted, the national government had tried to divide free states from slave states by a line across a map.
VOA: special.2009.04.23
So, you have to feed the slave all year round to work only a small part of the time, that's not very profitable.
你不得不整年的喂养奴隶,而他们只有少量时间在工作,这是很不划算的
Finally,he asked the United States Supreme Court to decide if he was a slave or a free man.
VOA: special.2009.05.14
To do any other kind of manual labor is to act like a slave."
从事其他任何体力劳动便是自贬为奴隶"
For those opposed to slavery, the platform rejected the idea that slave owners had a constitutional right to take slaves into new territories.
VOA: special.2009.07.09
All tended to have a high slave-to-free ratio of population.
人口中奴隶所占的比例 都是非常高的
He would ask Congress to accept the pro-slavery Kansas constitution and make the territory a slave state.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
That shall go to the stranger, the orphan Always remember you were a slave in the land of Egypt, therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment.
要留给寄居的与孤儿,寡妇,你也要记念你在埃及地作过奴仆,and,the,widow…,所以我吩咐你这样行。
A bill was proposed that would free any slave who joined the army to fight.
VOA: special.2009.12.03
The northern states by the Antebellum Period 1820s,1830s,1840s-- was beginning to sort of hurtle toward a different future than what that slave society was perhaps--no, not really slowly it too was hurtling toward a certain future.
北方在战前,也就是19世纪20至40年代,就急速开始朝着,和奴隶社会完全不同的方向发展,但是南方奴隶社会的发展得也不是很慢,它也在飞驰向一个确定的未来
Brown did. He declared that he had not planned to start a slave rebellion.
VOA: special.2009.07.02
That's always open to debate, exactly when the South became a slave society.
经常有一些公开的争论,南方究竟是从何时成为奴隶社会的
Slave-holders in Missouri did not want the Nebraska area to become a free territory.
VOA: special.2009.04.23
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
So I went to work and tested him and worked him like a slave.
VOA: special.2009.01.03
In resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act the state of Wisconsin enacted a Personal Liberty Law that said they were not going to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and turn in fugitive slaves, and the justification was that it was their state's right to do so.
为了抵制逃亡奴隶法,威斯康辛州政府颁布了个人自由法,规定他们不会执行,逃亡奴隶法并交出逃奴,理由是,该怎么做是他们州的权利
And when I go to the A-1 Toyota for my service or to buy my new Camry, which I've done every four years for the last two decades, I don't always think of a slave market but it does occur to me that--.
当我去丰田A1店,接受服务或购买我的新佳美的时候,过去二十年中我每四年都会去一次,我不是总会联想到奴隶市场,但我确实曾经那么想过
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