Before the Civil War, if you were black and born a free man, you could still be forced into slavery.

在南北战争发生之前，如果你是黑色人种，且生下来就是自由人，你仍然可能被迫成为奴隶。

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Antiwar people told them that the civil war was not about saving the unity of the federation, but about liberating black slaves.

反战人士对他们说，这场内战不是为了挽救联邦的统一，而是为了解放黑人奴隶。

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These are the faces of black soldiers during the American Civil War.

这些是美国内战期间黑人战士的面孔。

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During one event, she noted that German prisoners of war were permitted to sit closer to the stage than black soldiers.

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Now when Black Boy was published there was a war bond advertisement on the back cover of the book.

当《黑孩子》出版时,战争债券的广告是附在书后的。

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It is kind of haunting when you think it's only 1831 when he writes this, and that Civil War is still 30 years away: "Slavery brutalizes the black population and debilitates the white.

这段话在人们脑海中挥之不去,因为他写下这段话时才1831年,离开内战爆发还有30年时间,"奴隶制残害了黑人,也削弱了白人

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They know that a wide spectrum of grey lies between the white of peace and the black of war.

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He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years.

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So, cast as a black man in the war movie, Lazarus decides to dye his skin surgically.

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