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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。

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For some time during the American Civil War, the Fugitive Slave Acts were considered to still hold in the case of blacks fleeing from masters in border states that were loyal to the Union government.

在美国内战期间，相当一段时间，逃奴法案在某些忠于联邦的边境州仍被视为有效。

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He wrote that the North was too aggressive toward the South and should stop interfering in the slave states.

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The North and the South had roughly, as the Northern and Southern states, the Free states and Slave states, had roughly the same geographic size.

北方和南方大致上,北方和南方的各州有,自由州和蓄奴州的区别,但其地理大小总体上相同

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By 1860 there were approximately 4,000,000 slaves in the United States, the second largest slave society slave population--in the world.

截至1860年,美国大约有,四百万的奴隶,也因此使之成为了,世界历史上的第二大奴隶社会

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