Many men fought for the abolition of slavery.

许多人为废止奴隶制度而奋斗。

And the statesmen's political lives depended on slavery.

政治家的政治生命也取决于奴隶制度。

Once in office, Jefferson extended slavery with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; the new land was carved into 13 states, including three slave states.

入主白宫之后的 1803 年，杰弗逊通过购买路易斯安那州扩大了奴隶制度，这片土地后来被划分为了 13个州，其中包括 3个蓄奴州。

For one thing, the South could not afford to part with its slaves.

一方面，南方各州无法认同废除奴隶制度。

I am a victim of modern day slavery, she says.

她说，我是现代奴隶制度的受害者。

Abraham Lincoln was active in politics and strongly against slavery.

亚伯拉罕? 林肯极从事政治活动，强烈反对奴隶制度。

One day in October of eighteen fifty-nine, Americans were shocked by news of an attack led by John Brown. He was an antislavery extremist. Many people also considered him a madman.

1859年10的一天，美国人得知·朗领导发起一场袭击，大家都被这个消息震惊了。·朗是反奴隶制度极端分子，许多人还认为他是个疯子。

Now I mention this story to illustrate some issues of the conflation of class, race, ethnicity, and social status I often see on videos I post about the history of chattel slavery.

现在我提到这个故事是为了说明我经常在我发的关于奴隶制度历史的视频中看到的阶级、种族、民族和社会地位的并问题。

The foundation had a history of funding initiatives to help the disadvantaged; in the U.S., where enslavement was only 72 years gone, the disadvantaged were disproportionately Black.

该基金会曾资助过旨在帮助弱势群体的举措，在奴隶制度刚刚结束72年后的美国，处于不利地位的黑人比例尤其庞大。

Southern soldiers used the flag during the U.S. Civil War of the 1860s, when they fought to keep slavery of African Americans legal in their states.

19世纪60年代美国南北战争期间南方士兵使用的正是这面旗帜，当时他们是为了维持黑人奴隶制度的法性而战。

Heston played the Egyptian prince who learns his true identity and leads the Hebrew people out of slavery in Egypt to the promised land.

赫斯顿扮演的埃及王子了解了自己的真实身份，带领希伯来人从埃及的奴隶制度中走出来，来到应许之地。

So on June 19 in 1865, Union troops rode into Galveston, Texas, to inform slaveholders and enslaved people that the institution of slavery was ending.

在1865年619日，联邦军队进入德克萨斯州的加尔维斯顿，通知奴隶主和被奴役的人，奴隶制度即将结束。

At the time, many American colonies were economically and socially dependent on slavery — a fact the British saw as a weakness to exploit.

当时，许多美洲殖民地在经济和社会上都依赖奴隶制度——而英国人将此视为一个可以加以利用的弱点。

It was not until after Lincoln was murdered, however, that the states approved the Thirteenth Amendment to ban slavery everywhere in the country.

然而，直至林肯被谋杀后，各州才通过了第十三条修正案，彻底废除奴隶制度。

This kind of evasive language shows how characters are desperate to cover up the region's intolerable history of genocide and slavery.

这种回避性的语言显示了角色们急于掩盖该地区不可容忍的种族灭绝和奴隶制度的历史。

Many of them had not even believed in slavery and they thought this was far worse than slavery had ever been.

其中有些人原来就不相信奴隶制度，现在他们认为这种制度比过去的奴隶制度还要坏得多。

This was supposed to be in contrast to Uncle Tom's Cabin, which he thought had treated to slavery too harshly.

这和《汤姆叔叔的小屋》形成了鲜明的对比 ·西科认为其对待奴隶制度的态度太苛刻了。

The issue of slavery was a major reason for the nation's civil war in the 1860s.

奴隶制度是1860年美国内战的主要原因。

So begins " Beloved, " Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the suffering wrought by slavery and the wounds that persist in its wake.

托妮·莫里森获得普利策奖的小说《宠儿》就是这样开头的，它讲述了奴隶制度带来的痛苦和持续的创伤。

However, these grand myths didn't match the messy reality of the American South, divided by racist Jim Crow laws and plagued by the legacies of slavery and colonial violence.

然而，这些伟大的神话与美国南方混乱的现实并不相符，南方因种族主义的吉姆·克劳法律而分裂，并受到奴隶制度和殖民暴力遗留问题的困扰。