His father, who was a local pastor from the southwest of England, sent him to Oxford, although he went at the age of 14.

他的父亲来自英格兰西南部,是一个当地牧师，把他送进了牛津，尽管他进大学时只有14岁。

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Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

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Or was it 1840? Or was it really in the wake of the Mexican War when you get this massive expansion into the great southwest and the Mexican Session which we'll take up actually next week?

还是1840年,在墨西哥战争的前夕,美国大举扩张进入,广阔的西南部地区及墨西哥会议的召开,这些其实我们下周都会讲到

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