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Difficult as it is to believe,
盡管現在的人很難相信
many, many Northerners separated out the question of slavery from the question of race.
當時許多許多的北方人區分了 奴隸制問題和種族問題
In other words, there are many reasons to oppose slavery which have nothing to do with race.
換言之 反對奴隸制的很多理由和種族問題半毛錢關系都沒有
If slavery moves out into the Western Territories, whites are not going to want to go there.
如果奴隸移民到西部地區 白人們將不會希望到那
The slave owners will absorb all the good land. They don't want to compete with slave labour.
奴隸主們將會占有所有的豐腴之地 他們不希望和奴隸勞動力競爭
They don't want blacks around. There are all these reasons why whites in the North will say,
他們不想和黑人生活在一起 這些都是為何北方的白人將會說
I don't care about slavery in Mississippi, but I don't want it expanding into Kansas
我不關心密西西比河州的奴隸制 但是我不希望它擴張到卡薩斯州
where I or my son may move out there to get a farm, to get a job.
我和我兒子也許會到那開墾農場或找個工作
Lincoln's own impoverished upbringing had demonstrated to him what happened
林肯自身貧困的成長是一個最好的例子表明
when free white labour was set in competition against slavery.
自由的白人勞動和奴隸競爭的結果
Lincoln's father moves from Kentucky,crosses the Ohio River into Indiana,
林肯的父親從肯塔基州 穿過俄亥俄河到印第安納州
in part because Kentucky is a slave state and Indiana is a free state,
部分由于肯塔基是一個奴隸州 而印第安納是一個自由州
and slavery limits the potential of the white labour to enjoy the fruits of his labour.
奴隸制限制了白人勞工享受自身勞動成果的可能
How could a small labourer compete in an agricultural market
一個小小的勞工如何在農業市場上
with a slaveholder who has a gang of slaves doing labour for no wage whatsoever?
和擁有一幫免費奴隸的奴隸主相互競爭呢
