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。”

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，但他认为加利福尼亚和新墨西哥都应该是自由州。

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，并计划补偿奴损失。

Four of them had been slaveholders.

其中四人曾是奴。

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

南方奴根本没有任何兴趣报道这样新闻，他们也不认可林肯法令是合法。

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

时至今日，黑人仍被迫在我们公共场所面对奴纪念碑。

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《解放黑人奴宣言》，基本上是为了确保这些奴确实为他们新获得劳动力支付了薪水。

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

为了做出改变另一做法是——鸟类专用——停止用鸟类纪念奴和白人种族优越义者。

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后代，他们想知道他们祖先中是否有奴。

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面上看， 奴、奴贩子认为他们想法用我们话说不是种族义。

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水平，你们这些奴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，他自己拥有奴并鄙视废奴义（“奴”一词在他唱得很少第三节中模棱两可）。

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.

许多回应这些事件都是同一拨人，但当邦联者和奴雕像成为焦点时，他们反应就非常不同。

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州加尔维斯顿，通知奴和被奴役人，奴制度即将结束。

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底层， 种植园和奴之下，但奴之上。

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.

奴残忍并不是他错，而是他所生活制度错。

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其他人描述，他们不分青红皂白地蔑视和诅咒整个奴阶级。

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.

他们不喜欢奴应该随着时间推移慢慢获得自由想法。他们认为不应该向奴支付报酬来释放他们奴。

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章节和词句来为自己正。

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，你可以做这个额外分层分析，你可以说，“好吧，让我们用这个数据库看看奴和非奴投票结果是否不同。”