来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第3集 第3集》

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  by being dominated by the North.
  它会被北方所统治
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  "Every day the latter grows more wealthy
  "北方每天都在变得更富裕
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  and densely populated while the South
  人口也越来越多 而南方
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  is stationary and growing poor."
  毫无进步 变得越来越贫困"
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  Not entirely accurate about that either,
  这点其实也不完全正确
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  from what we now know about the profitability
  因为我们已经讲到过
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  of slavery and the profitability of the cotton crop.
  奴隶制和棉花作物能产生巨大的经济利益
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  But he ends that famous section with this passage.
  但他用这么一段话结束了这篇文章
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  It is kind of haunting when you think
  这段话在人们脑海中挥之不去
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  it's only 1831 when he writes this,
  因为他写下这段话时才1831年
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  and that Civil War is still 30 years away:
  离开内战爆发还有30年时间
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  "Slavery brutalizes the black population
  "奴隶制残害了黑人