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Most of these slaves lived and worked in the Southern United States, where cotton fields (or areas where something is grown for food or clothing) needed a lot of labor (or hard work).
大多數(shù)奴隸在美國南部生活和工作，那里的棉花田（或種植某物來獲得食物或衣物的地方）需要大量的勞動（或繁重的勞作）。
Many of them worked on large plantations, which were very large farms.
許多奴隸在大型種植園上勞作，也就是非常大的農(nóng)場。
Slavery was legal (or allowed by law) from 1654 to 1865.
奴隸制在1654年到1865年間是合法的（或法律允許的）。
During this time, most slaves were treated very badly by their owners.
在此期間，大多數(shù)奴隸都受到了奴隸主非常殘忍的對待。
Slaves were often whipped (or hit with a long piece of leather to cut a person's back) and beaten (or hit badly).
奴隸常常被鞭抽（用長皮條抽爛某人的背部）和毒打（或打的很重）。
Black families were often separated (or forced to leave each other) when children were sold separately from their parents.
當孩子與父母分開出售時，黑人家庭常常被拆散（或強制離開彼此）。
For all these reasons, over time people began to think that slavery was wrong.
因為這些原因，慢慢地，人們開始認為奴隸制是錯誤的。
Eventually slavery was made illegal (or against the law) when the 13th Constitutional Amendment was passed (or made into law) in 1865.
最終，當?shù)谑龡l憲法修正案于1865年通過（或成為法律）時，奴隸制被定為非法（或違反法律）。
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