If you are not a slave bill collector you will have a lot of free time.

如果你不是一个奴隶法案的收藏家你就会有很多的空闲。

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Lincoln then defended his statement that the United States could not continue half slave and half free. He said he did not mean that customs or institutions must be the same in every state.

林肯随后为他有关美国不能再以一半是奴隶制一半是自由州的形式存在的声明辩护，他说，他的意思并不是说每个州的习俗或制度都必须一样。

youdao

Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men, because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.

甘心事奉，好像服事主，不像服事人。因为晓得各人所行的善事，不论是为奴的，是自主的，都必按所行的得主的赏赐。

youdao

They wanted new states to be free from slavery, so they would not have to compete with slave labor.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

So the status of slave was lowest, ; freed persons was next highest in Roman Law; and free people were next.

所以罗马律法中，奴隶的地位是最低的，然后是自由人;,接着是自由民。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

We trace generations of African Americans, free and slave, who risked everything to realize their God-given rights.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

In 1854 he had battered down a courthouse door in Boston in an attempt to free the fugitive slave Anthony Burns.

NPR: Excerpt: 'White Heat'

Some of Congress's fiercest fights were over the admission of new states to the union, and whether they should be slave or free.

ECONOMIST: American democracy