He described how the story of his family began long ago in Africa when slave traders captured one of his ancestors.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

There's this deep religious tradition that came out of Slave Religion, but there is also a deep anger. -Yes. Yes.

在《奴隶宗教》这本书中,既有深深的宗教传统，又有一种怒火，-的确如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Essentially what's going on here is the underlying Akkadian words, I guess, are awilum, mushkenum, and then a third category, slave.

本质上来说，这里所使用的是阿卡德的基础语言，也就是阿维鲁，穆什钦努以及属于第三级别的奴隶。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Supporters of slavery wanted to organize a constitutional convention that could put Kansas into the Union as a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

So the status of slave was lowest, ; freed persons was next highest in Roman Law; and free people were next.

所以罗马律法中，奴隶的地位是最低的，然后是自由人;,接着是自由民。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And they discuss his influence in the Supreme Court ruling in the case of a slave from Missouri named Dred Scott.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

By the 1830s,1840s, there were over 100 men in Charleston, South Carolina alone, making their livings full-time as slave traders.

到了十九世纪三四十年代,仅仅在南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿地区,就有超过一百个,专职从事奴隶贸易的奴隶交易商

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The process was repeated every day and night until the escaped slave was safe in New England or even Canada.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Objection number two, it's not really slavery to tax because at least in a democratic society it's not a slave holder.

第二条反对意见，征税算不上是奴隶制,因为至少在民主社会,不存在奴隶主。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

For years,rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Let's consider a business as sort of a person who is owned, like a slave, who is owned by other people.

我们假设公司是一个被人所有的人,比如奴隶,他们隶属于奴隶主

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

If a slave dies you got to buy a new machine, and while he's alive you got to feed him.

如果一个奴隶死掉了,你就得买台新的,他活着时你还要养着他

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They wanted new states to be free from slavery, so they would not have to compete with slave labor.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

And when he goes picking in the cotton fields, he imagines that he could be a slave.

当他去采棉花的时候，他把自己想象成一个奴隶。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It was the same town where abolitionist John Brown had tried to start a slave rebellion a few years before.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

It's a seminal book, which talks about slave religion.

奴隶宗教》是一本具有开创意义的书。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He says Harpers Ferry was a noisy,dirty, polluted industrial city in what was then Virginia, the largest slave state in America.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

But he says, "Others believe that the distinction between master and slave is not natural, " but is based on force or coercion."

但他还说：，“有些人却不认为,介于主奴间的区别是自然的，而是基于武力或威吓的缘故“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He said it would be best to let the people themselves decide if New Mexico would be a slave or free state.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

By 1860 there were approximately 4,000,000 slaves in the United States, the second largest slave society slave population--in the world.

截至1860年,美国大约有,四百万的奴隶,也因此使之成为了,世界历史上的第二大奴隶社会

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

In these private talks, Brown said it was too late to settle the slave question through politics or any other peaceful way.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

He wanted to build institutions that would be used for the sole purpose of perfecting the slave into the perfect worker.

因而需要建立一些特殊机构,这些机构只用于一个目的,就是能够让奴隶变成完美的工人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Finally,he asked the United States Supreme Court to decide if he was a slave or a free man.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

When a slave is freed--and in the Ancient World, in the Roman Empire, most slaves were eventually freed, - unless they just died before long-- they became a freed man.

当一名奴隶被释放。。。在古罗马帝国，几乎所有奴隶最终都会被释放，除非他们很早就去世-,成为脱离奴隶身份的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

There also was the danger that fighting would cause slave states still in the Union to secede and join the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

For example, they might-- paterfamilias would often put a slave up in business, give a slave enough money to run a business.

比如，他们可能。。。,家长通常会让奴隶参与生意，给他一笔钱做生意。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He said the North must recognize the rights of southerners, especially the right to take slave property into territories of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The Hittite laws too: there are different amounts fixed by class in the miscarriage laws, 95 and 99. The middle Assyrian laws also distinguish between the awilum, the mushkenum and the slave.

赫梯法典也一样，在从第95条到99条的流产法中,不同阶级有不同的处罚金额，中亚述法典也对,阿维鲁，穆什钦努和奴隶进行了区分。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

All of those slave societies had a population of slaves that was from one-quarter to one-half, and sometimes more, of the total population.

这些奴隶社会的奴隶人口都占总人口,的三分之一到一半,有时甚至更多

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选