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The importance was that it said, "We are on the side of Emancipation."
解放宣言的重要性就在于它宣稱 我們是支持解放奴隸的
It said, "The Union is an anti-slavery Union."
上面寫道 這是一個反對奴隸的聯邦
Before the Emancipation Proclamation, the war was about Union,
在奴隸宣言發表之前 這場南北戰爭僅僅是為了建立一個聯邦國家
and Lincoln said if I can restore the Union without freeing a single slave, I'll do it.
林肯自己也說 如果我不需要解放一個奴隸就能重振美聯邦 我肯定會這么做
But he couldn't do it and the Emancipation Proclamation became the symbolic turning point of the war.
但事實是他做不到 而奴隸解放宣言 成為了戰爭中具有象征意義的轉折點
It committed the whole war effort now, whether those generals and colonels wanted to or not, to Nending slavery as an aim of the war.
這表明這場南北戰爭將竭盡全力 無論那些將軍們 和少校們是否愿意 都將以結束奴隸制度為戰爭的一個目標
Four million slaves, the labour system of the South, that is a radical move, because once you do that there's really no going back.
四百萬的奴隸是美國南部的整個勞動力體系 那是破釜沉舟的一步 因為一旦你那么做了那就真的沒有退路了
If you start rounding up thousands of slaves to free them and give them some kind of new status,
如果你將成千上萬的奴隸集合在一起 解放他們 然后給予他們新的身份
you surely cannot send them back to anything resembling slavery.
你當然不能再把他們送回去做任何類似于奴隸的事情
The modern reputation of Abraham Lincoln rests above all on his status as the Great Emancipator.
在當代 林肯之所以聲望顯著 乃由于其解放者之身份
It's the story that the Lincoln industry and the academic establishment stand behind,
這是所有對林肯的專門研究 以及整個學術界所支持的觀點
and it's what all Americans are taught at school.
美國的學校也是這么教授美國人的
Abraham Lincoln is one of the best presidents this country has ever had because of what he did for the slaves.
亞伯拉罕·林肯是美國歷史上最偉大的總統之一 因為他解放了美國南部的奴隸
He thought it was wrong and no person should own and other person.
他認為奴隸的存在是錯誤的 一個人并不能擁有另一個人
He'd just abolished slavery and all the wrongdoings of our country.
他結束了奴隸制 也中止了我們國家所犯下的種種罪惡
