They were slaves, to be bought and sold as chattels.

他们是奴隶，像财产一样被买卖。

That war preserved the Union and emancipated the slaves.

那场战争保住了联邦政府，解放了奴隶。

Slaves were not emancipated until 1863 in the United States.

美国奴隶直到1863年才获得自由。

Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage.

主人们有时候允许奴隶赎身。

The determinist doctrines in question maintained that certain people were born to be slaves.

上述的决定论信条坚信某些人生来就是奴隶。

The state of Liberia was formed a century and a half ago by freed slaves from the United States.

利比里亚国家是一个半世纪前由来自美国的获得自由的奴隶建立的。

Pity thy slaves, and comfort them with a royal kick!

可怜可怜你的奴隶吧，用陛下踢上一脚，好好安慰他们吧！

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

一方面，南方地区无法承担废除奴隶制带来的损失。

As of 1860, there were about four million slaves in the United States.

截至1860年，美国大约有四百万的奴隶。

The southern states wanted to keep the laws that allowed them to own slaves.

南方各州想要保留允许他们拥有奴隶的法律。

It is difficult for us to imagine what life was like for slaves in the ancient world.

我们很难想象古代奴隶的生活是怎么样的。

The conventional picture is that tens of thousands of slaves dragged stones on sledges.

传统的画面是，成千上万的奴隶用雪橇拖着石头。

Adam glorified the pyramids of Egypt, but he discovers that they are built on the misery of slaves.

亚当为埃及的金字塔而荣耀，但是他发现金字塔是建立在奴隶的不幸之上的。

Northup was shipped south to New Orleans along with other slaves, where he was sold in a slave market.

诺萨普和其他奴隶一起被运到南方的新奥尔良，在那里的奴隶市场被卖掉。

Still Jefferson freed Hemings's children—though not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other slaves.

尽管如此，杰弗逊还是释放了赫明斯的孩子们，但赫明斯本人和杰弗逊的其他大约150个奴隶并没有得到释放。

Nowadays, some people cannot live without mobile phones for even one hour, becoming slaves of mobile phones.

如今，有些人甚至离开手机一小时都不行，成为了手机的奴隶。

In the absence of clear goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily doings until we become slaves of them.

在缺乏明确目标的情况下，我们会奇怪地忠于执行日常的事情，直到我们成为它们的奴隶。

These indentured servants were treated as slaves for the period during which they had sold their time to American employers.

这些契约仆人在将自己的时间卖给美国雇主的期间被当作奴隶对待。

Merian also made note of the help she received from the natives of Suriname, as well as slaves or servants that assisted her.

梅里安还记下了她从苏里南当地人那里得到的帮助，以及协助她的奴隶或仆人。

I mean when you go to court, slaves, of course, can't represent themselves in court at all. They don't have any legal standing.

我是说，如果你上法院，奴隶当然不能在法庭上代表自己。他们没有任何法律地位。

Antiwar people told them that the civil war was not about saving the unity of the federation, but about liberating black slaves.

反战人士对他们说，这场内战不是为了挽救联邦的统一，而是为了解放黑人奴隶。

This slim volume is packed with tips to help wage slaves as well as lottery winners get the most "happiness bang for your buck".

这本薄薄的书里有很多小贴士，可以帮助工薪奴隶和彩票中奖者获得最“物超所值的快乐”。

In between these storm surges were steadier but similarly profound tides in which people moved out to colonize or were captured and brought in as slaves.

在这些风暴之间，这个浪潮比较稳定，但潮水的深度也差不多，在这期间，人们迁出去殖民或者被抓住带去当奴隶。

Owning slaves was " like having a large bank account, " says Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America.

《一个不完美的上帝：乔治·华盛顿、他的奴隶和美国的诞生》一书的作者温塞克说，拥有奴隶“就像拥有一个巨额的银行账户”。

This experience left a deep impression on him, and made him determined to do something for convicts and slaves and for all who were oppressed and deprived of their liberty.

这段经历给他留下了深刻的印象，使他决心为囚犯和奴隶以及所有被压迫和被剥夺自由的人做些事情。

By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their age as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.

大部分奴隶对自己的年龄所知甚少，就像马对自己年龄所知甚少一样，并且据我所知，大多数主人都希望让他们的奴隶不知道自己的年龄。

They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies to war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly.

它们培养菌类，将蚜虫当作家畜来饲养，发对军队作战，使用化学喷雾来警告和迷惑敌人，捕获奴隶，雇佣童工，并且不停地交换信息。

We are slaves of the motor car.

我们离不了汽车。

All slaves were set free when the Civil War ended.

南北战争结束后，所有的奴隶都获得自由。