Well Pete, you see, there was this free labor system and this slave labor system," blah-blah blah-blah.

皮特你知道,当时北方是自由劳动制,而南方是奴役劳动制",等等,等等

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Essentially, it means any society where slave labor where the definition of labor, where the definition of the relationship between ownership and labor is defined by slavery.

从本质上来说,它是个奴隶劳动的社会,在这个社会里劳动的内涵,以及劳动者与其劳动所有权之间的关系,都被定义为奴役

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But if you want to reject it, you have to break in to this chain of reasoning which goes, taking my earnings is like taking my labor, but taking my labor is making me a slave.

但要想驳倒自由主义，你就得打破它的这个推理过程，强占我的收入，就是强迫劳动，强迫劳动，就是让我做奴隶。

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Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

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To do any other kind of manual labor is to act like a slave."

从事其他任何体力劳动便是自贬为奴隶"

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