For years, rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.

几年来，富裕的奴隶主一直谈论让南方各州脱离联邦以确保他们自己的生活方式。

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And save Premdas, who is Thy slave.

也拯救了帕拉·达斯，你的奴仆。

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For years,rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.

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And if you want to understand why so many white Southerners, especially in the Deep South, went to such great extents to save their slave society, remember the kinds of arguments and language used by its defenders.

如果你们想知道为何如此多的南方白种人,特别是南方腹地的人们,想要最大程度地保住他们的奴隶制社会,那就揣摩一下这些辩护者所使用的论断,和他们的语言,措辞

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