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 if you want to understand why so many white Southerners, especially in the Deep South, went to such great extents to save their slave society, remember the kinds of arguments and language used by its defenders.

如果你们想知道为何如此多的南方白种人,特别是南方腹地的人们,想要最大程度地保住他们的奴隶制社会,那就揣摩一下这些辩护者所使用的论断,和他们的语言,措辞

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