Not entirely accurate about that either, from what we now know about the profitability of slavery and the profitability of the cotton crop.

这点其实也不完全正确,因为我们已经讲到过,奴隶制和棉花作物能产生巨大的经济利益

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The cotton crop nearly doubled every decade from 1820 to 1860.

从1820年到1860年,棉花的产量每十年就翻一倍

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The slave trade revolving around tobacco or cotton or coffee or sugar would tend to mix slaves and laborers from different language backgrounds, in part deliberately, so as to avoid the possibility of revolt.

为了获得烟草,棉花,咖啡,或糖块的奴隶交易,会将来自不同语言背景的奴隶,和劳动者们混在一起,这也在某种程度上,谨慎地避免了可能的造反

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A number of men, as one historian has written, I think quite effectively, "Mounted from log cabin to mansion" and I quote "On a stairway of cotton bales accumulating slaves as they went."

一些人就像一位历史学家写的那样,我觉得非常犀利,引述一段,"小木屋通往大厦的阶梯正是由,奴隶们用棉花包堆积成的"

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