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。

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。

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。

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月一天，人得知约翰·布朗领导发起一场袭击，大家都被这个消息震惊了。约翰·布朗是反奴隶制度极端分子，许多人还认他是个疯子。

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了说明我经常在我发布关于奴隶制度历史视频中看到阶级、种族、民族和社会地位合并问题。

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举措，在奴隶制度刚刚结束72年后，处于不利地位黑人比例尤其庞大。

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年代南北战争期间南方士兵使用正是这面旗帜，当时他们是了维持黑人奴隶制度合法性而战。

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。

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6月19日，联邦军队进入德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿，通知奴隶主和被奴役人，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，许多洲殖民地在经济和社会上都依赖奴隶制度——而英人将此视一个可以加以利用弱点。

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。

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。

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。

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

奴隶制度是1860年内战主要原因。

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。

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，这些伟大神话与南方混乱现实并不相符，南方因种族主义吉姆·克劳法律而分裂，并受到奴隶制度和殖民暴力遗留问题困扰。