You have merchants and traders who are handling the commerce on the trade routes and enjoying broader cultural contacts.

这里有商人和交易员，他们负责贸易商业,在通商道路上，并且进行广泛的文化交流。

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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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But as the foreign slave trade was cut off the domestic American slave trade absolutely boomed.

但当海外奴隶贸易被终止之后,美国国内的奴隶交易反而蓬勃发展起来

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