So I thought, " Well, maybe these members of Congress were slaveholders."

所以我想，“好吧，也许这些国会成员是奴隶。”

Taylor, as we have said, was a slaveholder. But he believed that both California and New Mexico should be free states.

正如我们所说，泰勒是个奴隶，但他认为加利福尼亚和新墨西哥都应该是。

Lincoln had originally proposed gradual emancipation and planned to  compensate the slaveholders for their losses.

林肯最初提出逐步解放，并计划补偿奴隶的损失。

Four of them had been slaveholders.

其中四人曾是奴隶。

White slaveholders would have had little interest in reporting such news nor would they have likely accepted Lincoln's order as lawful.

南方奴隶根本没有任何兴趣报道这样的新闻，他们也不认可林肯的法令是合法的。

To this day, black people are forced to confront monuments of slaveholders in our public spaces.

时至今日，黑人仍被迫在我们的公共场所面对奴隶的纪念碑。

They were also there to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, basically to make sure that these slaveholders actually were paying their newfound labor.

他们还在当地执行《解放黑人奴隶宣言》，基本上是为了确保这些奴隶确实为他们新获得的劳动力支付了薪水。

Another movement for change -- Bird Names for Birds -- is to stop using names of birds that honor slaveholders and white supremacists.

为了做出改变的另一做法是——鸟类名字专用——停止用鸟类的名字纪念奴隶和白人种族优者。

There are people who are descendants of some of these congressmen who are looking to see whether they had slaveholders in their ancestry.

有些人是这些国会议员的后代，他们想知道他们的祖先中是否有奴隶。

And so I'm saying this because literally slaveholders, slave traders, imagined that their ideas in our terms were not racist.

所以我这么说是因为从字面上看， 奴隶、奴隶贩子认为他们的想法用我们的话说不是种族。

If they are not brought down to a level with the brute creation, you slaveholders will never be blamed for it.

如果他们不被降低到与野蛮创造物相同的水平，你们这些奴隶将永远不会为此受到指责。

But he also represented slaveholders, owned slaves himself and despised abolitionism (the word " slave" appears ambiguously in his little-sung third verse).

但他也代表奴隶，他己拥有奴隶并鄙视废奴（“奴隶”一词在他唱得很少的第三节中模棱两可）。

Many of those responding to these events were the same people who responded very differently later when statues of Confederates and slaveholders were the focus.

许多回应这些事件的都是同一拨人，但当邦联者和奴隶的雕像成为焦点时，他们的反应就非常不同。

So on June 19 in 1865, Union troops rode into Galveston, Texas, to inform slaveholders and enslaved people that the institution of slavery was ending.

在1865年6月19日，联邦军队进入德克萨斯的加尔维斯顿，通知奴隶和被奴役的人，奴隶制度即将结束。

Alexander Hamilton was therefore born into the layer of West Indian society below that of the plantation owners and slaveholders, but above the slaves.

因此，亚历山大·汉密尔顿出生在西印度社会的底层， 种植园和奴隶之下，但奴隶之上。

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives.

奴隶的残忍并不是他的错，而是他所生活的制度的错。

From descriptions of such men as Burch and Freeman, and others hereinafter mentioned, they are led to despise and execrate the whole class of slaveholders, indiscriminately.

根据对伯奇和弗里曼等人以及下文提到的其他人的描述，他们不分青红皂白地蔑视和诅咒整个奴隶阶级。

They did not like the idea that slaves should become free slowly, over time. And they did not think slaveholders should be paid to free their slaves.

他们不喜欢奴隶应该随着时间的推移慢慢获得的想法。他们认为不应该向奴隶支付报酬来释放他们的奴隶。

For example, prior to the American civil war, to which we will be returning in a while, both the abolitionists and the slaveholders could support their causes with chapter and verse from the new testament.

例如美国内战前，我们很快也会讲到，废奴派和蓄奴者都可以引用新约里的章节和词句来为己正名。

Now if you're a historian, you have this extra layer of analysis you can do, where you can say, " Well, let's use this database and see if the slaveholders voted differently from those who were not slaveholders."

如果你是一个历史学家，你可以做这个额外的分层分析，你可以说，“好吧，让我们用这个数据库看看奴隶和非奴隶的投票结果是否不同。”