He wrote that the North was too aggressive toward the South and should stop interfering in the slave states.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

About one-third of Southern white families at one time or another had at least a toehold in slave ownership.

大约三分之一的南方白人家庭,在某一段时期至少都拥有过奴隶

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

So the status of slave was lowest, ; freed persons was next highest in Roman Law; and free people were next.

所以罗马律法中，奴隶的地位是最低的，然后是自由人;,接着是自由民。

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Whig Party members and Abolitionists in the North believed that slave-owners and southerners in Polk's administration had planned the war.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

By 1860 there were approximately 4,000,000 slaves in the United States, the second largest slave society slave population--in the world.

截至1860年,美国大约有,四百万的奴隶,也因此使之成为了,世界历史上的第二大奴隶社会

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He described how the story of his family began long ago in Africa when slave traders captured one of his ancestors.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

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。

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And they discuss his influence in the Supreme Court ruling in the case of a slave from Missouri named Dred Scott.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

And when he goes picking in the cotton fields, he imagines that he could be a slave.

当他去采棉花的时候，他把自己想象成一个奴隶。

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The process was repeated every day and night until the escaped slave was safe in New England or even Canada.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

The standard example is people involved in the slave trade.

典型案例就是奴隶交易中的人们

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

He'll be sold again, by the way, a third time, for $2000.00, in Mobile, Alabama, at the Mobile Slave Jail.

他又将被卖掉,顺便说一下,第三次,他被卖了两千美元,在亚拉巴马州一个流动的奴隶监狱

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In these private talks, Brown said it was too late to settle the slave question through politics or any other peaceful way.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

When a slave is freed--and in the Ancient World, in the Roman Empire, most slaves were eventually freed, - unless they just died before long-- they became a freed man.

当一名奴隶被释放。。。在古罗马帝国，几乎所有奴隶最终都会被释放，除非他们很早就去世-,成为脱离奴隶身份的人。

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There also was the danger that fighting would cause slave states still in the Union to secede and join the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

By the 1830s,1840s, there were over 100 men in Charleston, South Carolina alone, making their livings full-time as slave traders.

到了十九世纪三四十年代,仅仅在南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿地区,就有超过一百个,专职从事奴隶贸易的奴隶交易商

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They accused him of trying to create a slave rebellion in states he could not occupy with troops.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

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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

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。

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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 urged revival of the slave-trade in the late 1850s, and he developed a theory of what he called warranteeism--w-a-r-r-a-n-t-e-e-I-s-m.

他促成了十八世纪五十年代后期,奴隶交易的复苏,还自己发明了一套理论,名为抵押品主义

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Taney said there was no word in the Constitution that gave Congress greater power over slave property than over any other kind of property.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

For about six months Wallace Turnage worked in Hector Davis's slave auction house helping organize the auctions every day.

华莱士·特内奇在赫克托·戴维斯的,奴隶拍卖行工作了六个月,每天帮助组织拍卖

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Fremont could not expect to win any votes in the slave states of the South.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

About two-thirds of those went by outright sale, by financial speculation, in now a growing huge American business of the domestic slave trade.

大约有三分之二的人都被,金融投机所买断,被投入一个日益庞大的,国内奴隶贸易的美国商业市场

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It passed in the Senate only because two men from slave states voted for it.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But what you've got at the top are the early 1790s and I think 1820 in terms of slave population in the American south.

一般,你们会认为南方的奴隶数量,达到高峰是在十八世纪九十年代,而我却认为1820年更准确

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