来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第2集 第2集》

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  It's because he's from Mississippi.
  就是因为他来自于密西西比
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  Now, fortunes were made overnight;
  当时一夜就可以暴富
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  new wealth, overnight.
  奴隶制让人一夜暴富
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  A number of men, as one historian has written,
  一些人就像一位历史学家写的那样
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  I think quite effectively, "Mounted from log cabin to mansion"
  我觉得非常犀利 引述一段
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  and I quote "On a stairway of cotton bales
  "小木屋通往大厦的阶梯正是由
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  accumulating slaves as they went."
  奴隶们用棉花包堆积成的"
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  If you had five slaves
  1820年 如果你在阿拉巴马州
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  and a good piece of land in Alabama in 1820,
  拥有五个奴隶和一块肥沃的土地
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  you might very likely have fifty slaves
  十年后你很可能就会拥有五十个奴隶
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  and a hell of a lot more land a decade later.
  以及更多的土地
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  But it's also worth knowing that
  还有一点我们需要知道的是