南方各州想要保留允许他们拥有奴隶的法律。
The southern states wanted to keep the laws that allowed them to own slaves.
《一个不完美的上帝:乔治·华盛顿、他的奴隶和美国的诞生》一书的作者温塞克说,拥有奴隶“就像拥有一个巨额的银行账户”。
Owning slaves was " like having a large bank account, " says Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America.
由于奴隶制,由于过去的不公正,导致今天非裔美国人的贫困比例更高,他们拥有的机会比白人更少。
Because of slavery, because of past injustices, today, we have a higher proportion of African Americans who are in poverty, who face less opportunities than white people.
Could I do more for the ultimate good of the slave population by holding or emancipating what I own?
我是否可以为奴隶的最终利益做的更多,是继续拥有他们,还是解放他们呢
And, at one point in time, he laments the end of the old Latin world and the B.C. world, when people could have these child slaves.
在某一时刻,他为拉丁时代和公元前时代的结束而哀悼,那时人们可以拥有小孩做奴隶。
And he began to write back, first to his fiancee who quickly became his wife, Mary, and he was really worried about all the slaves he owned.
随后他就开始写回信,首先给他的未婚妻玛丽,不久便结婚了,并且他对他所拥有的奴隶充满忧虑
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