the South now had to have answers, it had to have justifications.

现在南方必须作出合理的回应
And we went through a lot of those defenses

我们上次已经谈了许多
and justifications the other day.

那类辩护理由
This was what Edmund Morgan,

这就是埃德蒙·摩根
the great colonial revolution historian here

伟大的殖民革命历史学家
at Yale for years argued so brilliantly, over and over.

在耶鲁一次又一次争论过的内容
It was the American paradox, this great American contradiction;

这是美国悖论重大的美国矛盾
largest slave system in the world being built

世界上最大的奴隶体系是由
by one of its first functioning, thriving republics.

最早成功运行共和政体的国家之一建立的
Two, anybody trying to work against slavery,

第二任何想要和奴隶制对抗的人
even in the most gradual, modest ways,

即使是用十九世纪二三十年代
by the 1820s and the 1830s,

最温和最适度的办法