There was no good reason in the world that an abolitionist in the 1830s, '40s, and even the '50s, had any right to believe they would see the end of slavery in their lifetime.

然而在这世上并不存在一个好理由,使一个十九世纪三十年代,四十年代甚至五十年代的废奴者,几乎不可能相信,他们在有生之年会看到奴隶制的终结

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