One of them was a writer named William Harper who wrote a book called Memoir Slavery in 1837 or '38.

其中一位作者名叫威廉.哈珀,他于1837或38年著过《奴役实录》

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I'm sorry, Harper did, even before him.

哦对不起,应该是哈珀,比他更早

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One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

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