five cases from butchers and so on and so on,

屠夫们的5个案件如何如何
and you wonder what the hell's this about?

大家会想这有什么啊
Then you keep reading

但深入研究后
and you realize it became a fundamental decision

大家会发现它成为原始判决案例
Justice Samuel Miller, for the majority,

塞缪尔·米勒法官他是多数派
argued that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments were intended—

认为十三和十四修正案的目的是
this was the good part of the decision--

这是本案的要点
to end slavery and advance the rights of the freedmen

终止奴隶制并发展自由民的权力
But he made a sharp--in other words,

但他急转－－换句话说
not to protect a bunch of white butchers in New Orleans

并未保护新奥尔良一伙白人屠夫的利益
And by the way, the lead lawyer, for the butchers,

顺带一句白人屠夫的律师头领
in the Slaughterhouse Cases, was none other than a man

负责"屠宰场案件" 不是别人