站在个人的立场上，林肯厌恨奴隶制，作为一个共和党人，把奴隶制逐出美国土地，他冀望于把这一举措变为将奴隶制度“彻底消灭之过程”的第一步。

As an individual, Lincoln hated slavery. As a Republican, he wished to exclude it from the territories as the first step to putting the institution “in the course of ultimate extinction.

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地下铁道在那些立志反抗奴隶制度的人们的努力下建成，支持长期受苦的美国南方黑人。

The underground Railroad was forged by the efforts of those who were prepared to fight against slavery and stand up for the long-suffering Southern black Americans.

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尽管在1865年，差不多100年前，美国就结束了奴隶制度，南方却仍然拥有自己的法律，继续隔离黑人和白人。

Although slavery ended in the USA in 1865, almost a hundred years before, the South had its own laws to continue the separation of blacks and whites.

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Now, just to give you a sense of how cold and calculated this business was, and how in many ways the first defense or justification of slavery in America is of course it certainly is by the late Antebellum Period it is an unabashed economic defense, as we'll see.

以上只是为了让你们体会到,这种交易是如何的冷酷而精明,以及战前后期第一次,美国奴隶制度的保卫与正名之战,不管怎么看,都毫无疑问,是一场赤裸裸的利益保卫战,正如我们所见

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Alexander H. Stephens, a Georgian, a slaveholder, said the cornerstone of the Confederacy, the cornerstone of their political movement, was what he called "American Negro slavery."

亚历山大· H·斯蒂芬斯,一个来自乔治亚州的奴隶主,用他的演讲为邦联打下了基石,这块邦联政治运动的基石,被他称为,"美国的黑人奴隶制度"

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