Great social transformations—the end of slavery, the women's and civil rights movements, the end of colonial rule, the birth of environmentalism—all began with public awareness and engagement.

巨大的社会变革——奴隶制的结束，妇女和民权运动的开展，殖民制度的结束，环保主义的诞生——都因为公民意识觉醒和公民的参与才开始的。

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Luxuriant Burial has been a special social phenomenon in China, with a long history from the Slavery Society to the present times.

厚葬是中国的一种特殊社会现象，这一社会现象从奴隶社会开始一直延续到现在。

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The story tells about the social evil of slavery, seen through the eyes of an innocent child.

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Knox was founded in 1837 by anti-slavery social reformers, led by George Washington Gale, and today ranks as one of the top private liberal arts colleges.

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It only serves about 30 people, but it's the beginning of efforts to deal with slavery's social impact -- by giving slaves job skills, an education, the tools to create a viable life if and when they escape from their masters.

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But perhaps his best chapter is on 19th-century America, where he distinguishes the reformers who prepared Christ's coming, as they saw it, by combating slavery, alcohol and other social evils, from the separatists, who withdrew into their own sects and cults, the better to wait out Christ's judgment on an unrescuable world.

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