Black slaves in the colonies also were divided about what side to join during the American Revolution.

美国独立战争期间，殖民地的黑奴在立场上也存在分歧。

In Northern states in the seventeen hundreds, black slaves were treated better than they were in the Southern states.

在18世纪的北方各州，黑奴受到的待遇比南方各州要好。

By seventeen fifty, almost twenty-five percent of the total number of people in the American colonies were black slaves.

到1750年，在美国殖民地的人口中，将近25%是黑奴。

It described the two major reasons for the war: saving the union of states, and freeing the black slaves.

拯救国家联盟，解放黑奴。

This kind of singing was brought to America by black slaves from Africa. It has remained very popular in black church music.

这种演唱的方式由非洲的黑奴带来美国。他在黑人宗教音乐中非常受欢迎。

They said former black slaves in the south had gained a lot under Republican rule. Now, they said, these black Americans would lose everything.

他们说，在共和党的统治下，南方以前的黑奴获得了很多好处。现在，这些美国黑人将失去一切。

It tells the story of a teenage boy, who has run away from home, and Jim, a black slave who has also run away.

故事围绕着一位逃离家园的少年，以及同样出逃的黑奴展开。

Spirituals were religious songs that were created and sung by black slaves in North America.

灵歌是由北美黑人奴隶创作和演唱的宗教歌曲。

Dido Bell was the illegitimate daughter of a black slave and William Murray's nephew, and was raised by Murray as part of the aristocracy.

黛多·蓓儿是威廉·默里的侄子与一个黑人奴隶的私生女，并被默里当作贵族阶层抚养。

One day, my master sent me out fishing with his brother Ismael and a black slave boy called Xury.

有一天， 我的主人派我和他的兄弟伊斯梅尔以及一个叫 Xury 的黑奴男孩出去钓鱼。

When Sam's own father had the money, he bought or rented black slaves to help with house- and farm-work.

当山姆自己的父亲有钱时，他购买或租用黑奴来帮助做家务和农活。

From the fifteen hundreds to the eighteen hundreds, Europeans sent about twelve million black slaves from Africa to America. Almost two million of them died on the way.

从16世纪到19世纪，欧洲人从非洲向美洲运送了大约1200万黑奴。其中近200万人死于途中。

The other major dispute splitting the convention was how to count the population of black slaves in determining representation in the House.

大会分裂的另一个主要争议是如何计算黑人奴隶的人口来确定众议院的代表权。

In the U.S., back in the 1800s, there were many black slaves that were brought from Africa to the United States to work in the fields.

在美国， 早在 1800 年代，就有许多黑人奴隶被从非洲带到美国从事田间劳动。

There's another theory that " okay" comes from a language of West Africa that was used by some of the black slaves in the 19th century.

还有一种说法认为“okay”来自西非的一种语言，19 世纪一些黑奴使用这种语言。

'And the Eastern palaces in which your youth was spent, and the black slaves who waited on you, and the bearded sheikhs who imparted to you secret knowledge'?

“还有你度过青春时光的东方宫殿， 侍候你的黑奴， 以及传授给你秘密知识的大胡子酋长” ？

The origin of these outrageous claims dates back to slavery and the 19th century experiments by Dr. Thomas Hamilton, who tortured Black slaves to prove that Black skin was deeper than white skin.

这些离谱的说法的起源可以追溯到奴隶制和 19 世纪托马斯·汉密尔顿博士的实验，他折磨黑人奴隶以证明黑皮肤比白皮肤更深。

I asked him what persons could see in the magic mirror, and he said they were a boy not arrived at puberty, a virgin, a black female slave, and a pregnant woman.

我问他魔镜里能看到什么人，他说是未到青春期的男孩、处女、黑女奴和孕妇。

And even if the rebellion failed, he predicted that it would lead to a civil war between the North and the South. Should there be a war, he said, the North would break the chains of black slaves.

即使叛乱失败，他预言这将导致南北之间发生内战。他说，如果发生战争，北方将割断束缚黑人的锁链。