菲利斯·惠特利是一个年轻的非裔美国奴隶，他的主人是殖民地时期的美国地主约翰·惠特利。
Phyllis Wheatley was a young African-American slave who belonged to landowner John Wheatley in Colonial America.
主人们有时候允许奴隶赎身。
Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage.
大部分奴隶对自己的年龄所知甚少，就像马对自己年龄所知甚少一样，并且据我所知，大多数主人都希望让他们的奴隶不知道自己的年龄。
By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their age as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.
他们的主人，是一个反叛的奴隶主，名叫Charles准备把他们送到离家更远的地方来帮助北卡罗来纳州修建防御设施。
Their master, a rebel colonel named Charles Mallory, was planning to send them even farther from home, to help build fortifications in North Carolina.
但是又同奴隶制一样，他们依附于自己的主人，这就保障其成为固定、终生的劳动力，既不会组织起来、也不会罢工或者自由离开，而在市场体制下的劳动力是可以这样做的。
Yet as in a slave system, they were bound to their masters, guaranteeing a fixed and permanent workforce that could neither organize nor strike nor freely depart as might laborers in a market context.
但是又同奴隶制一样，他们依附于自己的主人，这就保障其成为固定、终生的劳动力，既不会组织起来、也不会罢工或者自由离开，而在市场体制下的劳动力是可以这样做的。
Yet as in a slave system, they were bound to their masters, guaranteeing a fixed and permanent workforce that could neither organize nor strike nor freely depart as might laborers in a market context.
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