People have not had a lot of money to tear down the old homes and build new ones.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

We now know, if we know anything about the Old South, the average American planter, the average American slaveholder, small ones and big ones, were raging capitalists.

如果我们对内战前的南方有所了解,就知道几乎每个种植园主,每个奴隶主,无论资产多少,都是精明的资本家

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

With the nets and all that." "I took home like four or five old ones, put them in my bedroom and rebuilt them and everything, and then finally went and got a license and put them in the water.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20