An increasing number of white Americans, however,saw slavery as an economic issue.

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then there's a whole array of economic arguments, and the cynic, the economic determinist, simply goes to the economic conclusions of pro-slavery and nowhere else.

于是有了一系列的经济学论据,愤世嫉俗地经济决定论者,单纯的从经济角度出发,来支持亲奴主义者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now, just to give you a sense of how cold and calculated this business was, and how in many ways the first defense or justification of slavery in America is of course it certainly is by the late Antebellum Period it is an unabashed economic defense, as we'll see.

以上只是为了让你们体会到,这种交易是如何的冷酷而精明,以及战前后期第一次,美国奴隶制度的保卫与正名之战,不管怎么看,都毫无疑问,是一场赤裸裸的利益保卫战,正如我们所见

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Its members opposed slavery for either moral or economic reasons.

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