I think there's still something to that

我发现对于这些即反现代又
but that anti-modern kind of backward-looking planter who

固步自封的南方种植者们来说
he didn't really like world markets,

他们不喜欢国际市场
he didn't like railroads and trains and all that stuff,

不喜欢如公路铁路等等这类交通设施
he just wanted to make a decent little living

他们只想保持原有的生活方式
if he could off growing some hemp and some tobacco

种点大麻烟草
and some indigo and some rice and some cotton,

种点颜料植物稻米和棉花
and he was good to his slaves.

而且他们对奴隶也不错
They had a bad break coming from Africa

知道黑人奴隶自非洲来很不容易
but that's the way it goes. Uh-uh.

我们对他们的印象就是如此错
We now know, if we know anything about the Old South,

如果我们对内战前的南方有所了解
the average American planter, the average American slaveholder,

就知道几乎每个种植园主每个奴隶主