Many men fought for the abolition of slavery.

许多人奴隶制度而奋斗。

And the statesmen's political lives depended on slavery.

政治家政治生命也取决于奴隶制度。

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

一方面，南方各州无法认同除奴隶制度。

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

她说，我是现代奴隶制度受害者。

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

奴隶制度是1860年美国内战主要原因。

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书上看到景象一样。

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，现在他们认这种制度比过去奴隶制度还要坏得多。

The Revolution in the Slave System.

奴隶制度革命。

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

这和《汤姆叔叔小屋》形成了鲜明对比 布·西科认其对待奴隶制度态度太苛刻了。

Oh why? Because of society? Because of slavery?

那怪谁呢 怪社会吗 还是奴隶制度？

Would the end of slavery have happened without Jesus' command to love one's neighbor as oneself?

没有耶稣爱人如己命令，奴隶制度怎会终结？

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

这种回避语言显示了角色们急于掩盖该地区不可容忍种族灭绝和奴隶制度历史。

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发展。

One of the things that Madison was against was the institution of slavery, of the owning of other human beings.

麦迪逊反对其中一件事是奴隶制度，即拥有其他人制度。

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，彻底除奴隶制度。

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

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

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 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了 13个州，其中包括 3个蓄奴州。

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小说《宠儿》就是这样开头，它讲述了奴隶制度带来痛苦和持续创伤。

Other delegates rose to denounce or defend slavery. But the convention had no power to rule on whether slavery was right or wrong.

其它代表也纷纷发言，对奴隶制度提出谴责或是辩护，但是制宪大会没有权力裁定奴隶制度是对是错。

The influences and associations that had always surrounded him, blinded him to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of Slavery.

一直围绕着他影响和联想使他看不到奴隶制度底层固有错误。