And he writes, for example, to Mary: "I am moreover undecided whether I ought to continue to hold slaves."

于是他便写给玛丽,比如这段,"我无法确定,我是否该继续拥有那些奴隶"

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About one-third of Southern white families at one time or another had at least a toehold in slave ownership.

大约三分之一的南方白人家庭,在某一段时期至少都拥有过奴隶

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And, at one point in time, he laments the end of the old Latin world and the B.C. world, when people could have these child slaves.

在某一时刻，他为拉丁时代和公元前时代的结束而哀悼，那时人们可以拥有小孩做奴隶。

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In some cases, especially the later on you go, some shops that have quite a few slaves that worked to produce these things.

在某些情况下,特别是历史越往后发展,一些作坊拥有不少奴隶,生产手工制品

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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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And he began to write back, first to his fiancee who quickly became his wife, Mary, and he was really worried about all the slaves he owned.

随后他就开始写回信,首先给他的未婚妻玛丽,不久便结婚了,并且他对他所拥有的奴隶充满忧虑

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Just two blocks down the hill from that great equestrian statue of George Washington, the Founder, you could find a huge slave jail owned by Hector Davis.

距离奠基者乔治·华盛顿巨大的骑马雕像,往山下两个街区,你会发现赫克托·戴维斯,拥有的一个巨大的奴隶监狱

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Hector Davis owned a two-story slave auction house and jail on 14th and Franklin Streets, just two blocks down the hill from Thomas Jefferson's glorious capitol building of the State of Virginia.

赫克托·戴维斯,在第十四和富兰克林大街,拥有一栋两层的奴隶拍卖行及监狱,仅仅距离托马斯·杰斐逊,那雄伟的弗吉尼亚州议会大厦,向山下两个街区远

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If you had five slaves and a good piece of land in Alabama in 1820, you might very likely have fifty slaves and a hell of a lot more land a decade later.

820年,如果你在阿拉巴马州,拥有五个奴隶和一块肥沃的土地,十年后你很可能就会拥有五十个奴隶,以及更多的土地

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He underlines hold slaves.

他在"拥有奴隶"下画了道线

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