The first is this era, of the 1820s, '30s, '40s and '50s, Antebellum America, exemplified most obviously by the anti-slavery movement, which is where we're going to get to as we leave today.

第一个时期,是十九世纪二十年代,三十年代,四十年代和五十年代,内战前的美国,废奴运动就是其典型,这是我们今天下课前要弄明白的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选