But they couldn't tell him how his ancestors had ended up on a slave ship.
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回到布里斯托尔,爱德华·科尔斯顿倒下的雕像被倾倒在350年前他的奴隶船停靠的港口。
Back in Bristol the fallen statue of Edward Colston was dumped into the harbor where his slave ships used to dock 350 years ago.
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我不认为“新世界”会带来什么世俗的兴奋感,尤其对于那些曾经从奴隶船上下来的人们。
I don't think the New World felt too new worldly exciting to the people who were brought over on slave ships.
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非洲人在奴隶船上受到的待遇很差,也就是从非洲运来奴隶的大船,许多人在抵达美洲之前就死了。
Africans were treated very poorly on the slave ships, which were large boats that brought slaves from Africa, and many of them died before getting to America.
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1781年,奴隶船中号为索要保险,将装着人的货箱直接卸入海中(当时船上疾病流行且已超载).
The slave ship Zong dumps its living cargo into the sea in order to claim insurance.