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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It had two--depending on when you look to three dozen major full-time slave traders.

有二十或三十多个,专业的奴隶贩子

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But it's amazing to read the letters and the language of slave traders when they write to each other, the complacency, the mixture of just pure racism on the one hand and just business language on the other.

当你阅读到那些奴隶商们,在往来的书信中所使用的言辞时,会令你非常震惊的,一面是混合在纯粹的种族歧视中的自满,另一面是那种完全商业化的措辞

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