2. In the north slaveholders were small in number and
slaveholding scale, with few big masters.
总体而言,北部殖民地奴隶主人口比例和蓄奴规模较小;
3. After Lincoln resisted the South's attack on Fort Sumter, four other
slaveholding states voted to secede, joining the newly formed Confederate States of America.
在林肯抗击南部各州对萨姆特要塞的攻击之后,又另有四个蓄奴州投票决定脱离联邦,加入美利坚邦联。