slavery

In his inaugural speech, the new president denounced the long dispute over slavery. He said he hoped it would end soon.

在他的就职演说中，他公开指责美国国内长期存在的有关奴隶制的争论，他说，他希望尽快结束这种争论。

Partial freedom seems to me a most invidious mode of slavery.

部分的自由对我来说就是最令人憎恶的奴役方式。

At a time when western countries (mainly referring to here is the European countries) was just a state of slavery in the city state.

而此时的西方各国（这里主要指的是欧洲各国）还仅仅是奴隶制的邦城国家。

He said they were interfering with a southern institution and were forcing slavery into politics.

他说，这些废奴主义者防碍了南方的社会制度，并强行将奴隶制带进了政治领域。

As I've said elsewhere, the members of the Court in Plessy remembered the day when human slavery was the law in much of the land.

我在别处就已经说过，普莱西案的法庭人员一定对奴隶制还是这块土地上许多地方法律的时代记忆犹新。

Buchanan said the South had good reason to leave the Union if abolitionists continued their attacks against slavery.

布肯南说，如果废奴主义者继续对奴隶制进行攻击的话，那么南方要脱离联邦就有很好的理由。

If it is wrong to enslave another, then God must be able to provide for those who follow him without resorting to slavery.

如果奴役他人是错误的，神一定会供应那些遵行他的话不蓄奴的人劳力上的需要。

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

我一听到有人讨论奴隶制，我就忍不住有一种很强的冲动，希望把奴隶制用在他的身上。

Senator John Clayton of Delaware proposed to the Senate that it name a special committee on the question of slavery in the new territories.

特拉华州联邦参议员约翰.克莱顿建议参议院成立一个专门委员会，研究解决新领土上的奴隶制问题。

Settlers in both new territories would have the right to decide the question of slavery.

两个辖区内的公民有权决定奴隶问题。

He said that God wanted him to fight slavery by invading Virginia with a military force.

他说，上帝已经喻示他去率领一支武装力量进攻维吉尼亚，从而拉开对奴隶制战斗的序幕。

And how did he get from his pledge not to interfere with slavery to a decision a year later to issue an emancipation proclamation?

为何“不干涉奴隶制度”的保证在一年后即转变为提出奴隶解放宣言的决心？

Brown himself did not want to escape. He said he could do more to destroy slavery by hanging than by staying alive.

布朗自己并不想逃跑，他说，他被绞死比活着更能够为摧毁奴隶制做贡献。

Also included are "A Plea for the Poor" and "Considerations on Keeping Negroes" one of the earliest attacks on slavery.

还包括“抗辩为穷人服务”和“思考保持黑人的”关于奴隶制的最早的攻击之一。

Lincoln is best known for his policies on abolishing slavery and his belief in self-government; he took his job as president very seriously.

林肯最为外人所知的是他的废奴政策及对自治的信念。他严肃看待他的总统一职。

Under these circumstances. Congress, on taking charge of these countries, did not absolutely prohibit slavery within them.

在这些情况下，国会为了管理这些地方，并没在这些地方内绝对禁止奴隶制。

Also significant was the fact that in 1847, just one of ten Philadelphia blacks had been born in slavery.

同样重要的事实是，1847年在费城，只有十分之一的黑人是出生在奴隶制下。

I believe anyone would be perfectly right to interfere with you, so far as to free those you wickedly hold in slavery. I think I did right.

我认为任何人都有权来干涉你们，只要能够解放那些被你们用奴隶制所牢牢掌控的奴隶们，我认为我们的所作所为是正确的。

Most anti-slavery men did not vote, because their names had been kept off the voting lists by pro-slavery officials.

绝大多数反对奴隶制的人没有投票，因为他们的名字都被支持奴隶制的官员从选举票中踢出去了。

So with slavery there too would be the theft of land aboriginals had not abandoned since time immemorial .

所以，伴随着奴隶制，也就会有对土地的盗取。而这些土地可是土著们自远古以来就未曾放弃过的。