The North and the South had roughly, as the Northern and Southern states, the Free states and Slave states, had roughly the same geographic size.

北方和南方大致上,北方和南方的各州有,自由州和蓄奴州的区别,但其地理大小总体上相同

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Democracy, the slaveholding class of the South came to see small d--as a dangerous thing.

民主,被南方蓄奴派视为,心腹大患

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Southern slaveholding leadership, in particular, were very suspicious of the spread of literacy.

特别是南方蓄奴派的领导,对传播文化教育有相当的成见

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