Nor did it free slaves in the areas around Norfolk,Virginia, and New Orleans,Louisiana.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

So within a couple of generations people could move up from being the lowest slaves to two generations of being free Roman citizens.

所以几代以内,奴隶能从最低社会等级,上升两位，成为自由的罗马公民。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

We remember the fish that we used to eat free in Egypt Okay, we were slaves, but the food was free, you know?

我记得以前在埃及的时候不花钱就可以吃鱼,虽然我们是奴隶，但是食物是免费的，你知道吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In time,however, there was another reason to fight: to free the black people held as slaves in the South.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

I mean, they live in the house, they get fed,probably with everybody else, they work with the master; the difference being that they are slaves rather than free men.

他们住在奴隶主家,他们和大家一起吃饭,他们和主人一起耕作,唯一不同之处在于,他们是奴隶而不是自由人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Anti-war activists told them that the war was not being fought to save the Union, but to free Negro slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

This was a radical concept in its day, evidently. The punishment should fit the crime, no more and no less for all free persons--granted slaves are not included--regardless of social class. Equality before the law.

很显然，这是当时最根本的概念，惩罚应该,与罪行相符，不偏向任何自由人，不顾社会阶级,当然奴隶除外，法律面前人人平等。

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He could not be sure of their support if he declared that the purpose of the war was to free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

It was his personal opinion. But he did not believe that the Constitution gave him the power to free all the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

It did not free all of the slaves in the United States, only those held by the rebels.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

It declared that slaves would be free anywhere that was still in rebellion on January first, eighteen sixty-three.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Once again,he said the war was not a struggle for the Union, but a fight to free the slaves of the south.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Southerners often said that slaves in the South lived better lives than free workers in the North.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The best answer, many people thought, was to free the slaves and help them return to Africa.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Brown held religious services Sunday morning and prayed for God to help him free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

The bill would free all slaves in the district who were born after a certain time.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Brown sent some of his men to capture the old colonel and free his slaves.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The northern states fought the South to save the Union and free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

He said the movement would continue until all the slaves in America were free.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

He said he only wanted to free some slaves and take them to Canada.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

It will free the slaves, but only in areas where Lincoln has no power.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Missouri laws did not give freedom to slaves who lived temporarily in free territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

It would permit the federal government to buy slaves and then free them.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

"We came to free the slaves," Brown said, "and only that."

VOA: special.2009.07.02

The states thought the federal government would free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Many Americans wanted Lincoln to free all the slaves.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

They would not fight to free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

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