According to historical research commissioned by Barclays, the book confused a "Quaker slave trader" called David Barclay with an early bank partner of the same name. 巴克莱委托进行的历史研究发现,该书将一个名为戴维巴克莱(davidbarclay)的“教友派奴隶交易者”与该行同名的一位早期合伙人混淆了。
The slave trader accepted the money and gave the young girl over to the tender mercies of her new sadistic master. 奴隶贩子拿了钱,将这个小姑娘交给了一个新的主人,一个残酷无情的施虐狂。
The heaviest load on his mind, after his conversation with the slave trader, lay in the foreseen necessity of breaking to his wife the arrangement contemplated. 自从跟那个奴隶贩子谈过以后,他就预料到必需把原先谈妥了的事告诉妻子,而一想到这一点,他心里就苦恼极了。
He was living in sin and was a slave trader, buying and selling human beings. 他本来生活在罪恶中,以买卖奴隶为生。
The irony was that in Sierra Leone, Cinqu é was faced with civil war and having lost his family became a slave trader himself. 但具有讽刺意味的是,塞拉利昂当时正面临着内战,而桑克也因此失去了他的家人,并自己成为了一个奴隶贩卖者。
The other day, a slave trader came to Miss Watson. 前几天,一个黑奴贩子来找华森小姐。