Many men fought for the abolition of slavery.

许多人为废止奴隶制度而奋斗。

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。

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。

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? 林肯积政治活动，强烈反对奴隶制度。

Modern day slavery isn't always the same as the images you see in textbooks.

现代奴隶制度并不总是和你在教科到的景象一样。

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。

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 布·西科认为其对待奴隶制度的态度太苛刻了。

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。

They didn't believe in slavery at all.

他们根本不相信奴隶制度。

Despite all this, there is little evidence to suggest that the average Roman questioned slavery.

尽管如此，几乎没有证据表明普通罗马人会质疑奴隶制度。

Picking cotton is a reference to chattel slavery.

“摘棉花”暗指奴隶制度。

Oh why? Because of society? Because of slavery?

那怪谁呢 怪社会吗 还是奴隶制度？

Once you've put that, that's a time bomb under the whole concept of slavery.

一旦确立了这一点，整个奴隶制度的概念就如同被埋下了一颗定时炸弹。

And things like slavery, well, it's everywhere.

奴隶制度这类现象，其实无处不在。

But, part two, in today's episode, we are going to be talking about slavery in Ancient Rome.

但，在今天的第二部分中，我们将讨论古罗马的奴隶制度。

It's rather hard to think of a civilization in history that didn't have slavery of some kind.

历史很难找到一个完全没有某种形式奴隶制度的文明。

We've given up cannibalism and slavery, but there's still no agreement

我们已摒弃了食人和奴隶制度，但在众多基本问题和伦理仍未达成共识。

The South had long been rich in natural resources, but the slave system had been unfavorable to their development.

南方长期以来自然资源丰富，但奴隶制度一直不利于他们的发展。