本文还通过塞丝的成长历程反映了美国黑人的历史，揭示了隐藏在树意象和塞丝的成长经历背后的深刻的社会主题：美国黑人必须去正视、去理解那不堪回首的往昔岁月，才能够开创出美好的未来。

In addition, it reveals a deep social significance reflected by tree image and growth of Sethe, that is, only by confronting and understanding the past life can the blacks create a bright future.

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这些成功却自相矛盾地掩盖了历史上积累的不利因素所造成的巨大人力成本，而这些不利因素仍然是美国黑人生活的核心。

These successes paradoxically obscure the tremendous human costs of historically accumulated disadvantage that remain central to black Americans' lives.

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在这个国家的大部分历史中，我们这些被划分到美国黑人社区的人，一直都是以默默地接受这种人为的不人道而告终。

For most of this country's history, we in the African-American community have been at the receiving end of man's inhumanity to man.

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And many people have noted that it's the spirituals, the slave spirituals, that express perhaps the most authentic forms of Christian faith that this country has produced.

很多人都注意到，圣歌，黑人圣歌，或许是美国历史上表达基督信仰的,最真诚的形式。

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