他担心这项法案会重新揭开痛苦的、全国性的、有关奴隶问题的争论。
He feared it would re-open the bitter , national debate about slavery .
虽然大多数作品都有政治上的抗辩意味,但也表达了一种性化了的奴隶意识和附庸意识。
Though many writings have the sense of something like political demurrer , they also express a kind of sexed ideology of slave and appendage .