Now when you go to jail-- I mean when you go to court, slaves of course can't represent themselves in court at all, they don't have any legal standing.

如果你进监狱。。。,我是说如果你上法院，奴隶当然不能在法庭上代表自己，他们没有任何法律地位。

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Could I do more for the ultimate good of the slave population by holding or emancipating what I own?

我是否可以为奴隶的最终利益做的更多,是继续拥有他们,还是解放他们呢

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If you think about it, it means that I'm a slave, that I don't own myself.

仔细想想，这就意味着我是一个奴隶，我不是自己的主人。

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When I say manufacturing, you understand everything is done by hand, but you see things like shops that contain a number of slaves working for a master.

你应明白,我所说的制造业是指手工业,但也包括,若干奴隶为主人工作的作坊

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But I think it became, in most ways and in most definitions, a slave society surely by the 1820s or the 1830s.

我认为最主流的定义是,奴隶社会确实起源于,十九世纪二三十年代

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But how do we get to 1861 and that secession crisis with Alexander H. Stephens delivering this Cornerstone Speech, declaring that, "Hey folks, it's all about slavery and its preservation?"

但事情怎么会演变到1861年那样,乃至之后的分离危机,亚历山大为何能在这篇演讲中,宣称,"嘿,伙计们,今天我要讲的是奴隶制和对其保护"

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I mean, the equivalent of a healthy teenage male slave, if you could sell him for $1000.00 in 1860 it's about the same price of a good Toyota Camry today.

我的意思是,一个健康的十几岁的男性奴隶的价值,假如你在1860年把他卖到一千美金的话,那么在今天就大约相当于,一辆不错的丰田佳美汽车的价格

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I mean, you should not imagine when I say slaves--just take out of your mind the plantations of the old South, because when you only have one or two slaves, the master is working right alongside them, doing exactly the same work that they are doing, and also instructing them and telling them what's what.

我的意思是,当我们提到奴隶的时候,大家不要想当然地联想到南部种植园,因为当你只有一两个奴隶时,奴隶主必须要和奴隶一起劳作,做着和奴隶一样的农活,并且不断告诉他们要做什么

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