American slave owners may have pretended that Africans were mere brutes, beasts of burden, almost as inert and dumb as other farm implements they classified them with in their ledgers.
미국 노예주들은  아프리카인을 그저 짐승 같고 짐을 진 동물, 또는 장부에 적힌 농기구처럼 수동적이고 멍청하다고 여겼습니다.