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Difficult as it is to believe,
尽管现在的人很难相信
many, many Northerners separated out the question of slavery from the question of race.
当时许多许多的北方人区分了 奴隶制问题和种族问题
In other words, there are many reasons to oppose slavery which have nothing to do with race.
换言之 反对奴隶制的很多理由和种族问题半毛钱关系都没有
If slavery moves out into the Western Territories, whites are not going to want to go there.
如果奴隶移民到西部地区 白人们将不会希望到那
The slave owners will absorb all the good land. They don't want to compete with slave labour.
奴隶主们将会占有所有的丰腴之地 他们不希望和奴隶劳动力竞争
They don't want blacks around. There are all these reasons why whites in the North will say,
他们不想和黑人生活在一起 这些都是为何北方的白人将会说
I don't care about slavery in Mississippi, but I don't want it expanding into Kansas
我不关心密西西比河州的奴隶制 但是我不希望它扩张到卡萨斯州
where I or my son may move out there to get a farm, to get a job.
我和我儿子也许会到那开垦农场或找个工作
Lincoln's own impoverished upbringing had demonstrated to him what happened
林肯自身贫困的成长是一个最好的例子表明
when free white labour was set in competition against slavery.
自由的白人劳动和奴隶竞争的结果
Lincoln's father moves from Kentucky,crosses the Ohio River into Indiana,
林肯的父亲从肯塔基州 穿过俄亥俄河到印第安纳州
in part because Kentucky is a slave state and Indiana is a free state,
部分由于肯塔基是一个奴隶州 而印第安纳是一个自由州
and slavery limits the potential of the white labour to enjoy the fruits of his labour.
奴隶制限制了白人劳工享受自身劳动成果的可能
How could a small labourer compete in an agricultural market
一个小小的劳工如何在农业市场上
with a slaveholder who has a gang of slaves doing labour for no wage whatsoever?
和拥有一帮免费奴隶的奴隶主相互竞争呢
