And I Googled members of Congress who were slave owners.

我在谷歌上搜索了是奴隶主的国会议员。

The truth as is often the case lies somewhere in between. Slave owners were a minority in the south as abolitionists were in the north.

通常情况下，真相就介于两者之间实际上南方的奴隶主和北方的废奴主义者都是少数。

Lewis Cass saw nothing wrong with slavery if that was what the people wanted. Zachary Taylor was a slave owner.

刘易斯·卡斯认为如果人们想要奴隶制存在的话，奴隶制就没有什么问题。扎卡里·泰勒则是个奴隶主。

Slave owners usually had large savings accounts.

奴隶主通常有大量储蓄账户。

Slave owners, and Nazis, any of the perpetrators of history's atrocities.

奴隶主和纳粹，任何历史暴行的肇事者。

President Andrew Johnson showed leniency toward Southern whites and former slave owners, who invented new ways to limit opportunities for Black Americans.

安德鲁·约翰逊总统对南方白人和前奴隶主作出宽大处理，因为这些人发明了新的方法来限制美国黑人的机会。

Slave owners knew about Harriet, too.

奴隶主也知道哈丽特。

William Gladstone, who served for twelve years as Liberal Prime Minister under Queen Victoria, was the son of John Gladstone, a major slave owner.

威廉·格莱斯顿在维多利亚女王手下担任自由党首相 12 年，他是大奴隶主约翰·格莱斯顿的儿子。

The slave owners paid the slave hunters rewards for bringing back escaped slaves.

奴隶主为带回逃跑的奴隶向奴隶猎人支付报酬。

And this is how we learned that the Nesom's were slave owners.

亚历克斯：这就是我们得知尼瑟姆家族是奴隶主的方式。

New measures were approved throughout the South to prevent this. Military law was declared in some areas. Slave owners threatened to beat or hang any Negro who even looked rebellious.

为防止这种情况发生，整个南方地区都批准实施新的措施。一些地区颁布了军事法，奴隶主威胁要殴打或绞死任何一个看起来想造反的黑人。

Most black people in this country are walking around with a slave owner's last name.

这个国家的大多数黑人都带着奴隶主的姓氏四处走动。

St. Clare, however, believes he is not biased, even though he is a slave owner.

然而，圣克莱尔认为他没有偏见， 尽管他是奴隶主。

Sometimes a slave owner would release his or her slaves upon his or her death.

有时，奴隶主会在他或她死后释放他或她的奴隶。

A desperate struggle between slave owners and the advocates of freedom was the outcome in Kansas.

堪萨斯州的结果是奴隶主和自由拥护者之间的一场殊死搏斗。

The slave owners wanted her dead.

奴隶主想让她死。

We could make a settlement with the slaves, or we could make a settlement with the slave owners.

我们可以和奴隶和解，也可以和奴隶主和解。

This could sound appalling because most slave owners we can imagine (indeed most authority figures) are pretty awful.

这听起来很可怕， 因为我们可以想象的大多数奴隶主（实际上是大多数权威人物）都非常糟糕。

They only knew that Scarlett's father had been a great slave owner, her mother a Robillard of Savannah and her husband was Rhett Butler of Charleston.

她们只知道思嘉的父亲当年是个大奴隶主，她的母亲来身萨凡纳的罗拉毕德家族，她的丈夫是查尔斯顿的瑞德·巴特勒。

And so, although slavery went against his own values, he supported the legal rights of slave owners.

因此，尽管奴隶制违背了他自己的价值观，但他支持奴隶主的合法权利。