The historian Ira Berlin wrote: In slave societies, nearly everyone—free and slave—aspired to enter the slaveholding class, and upon occasion some former slaves rose into slaveholders' ranks.
历史学家伊拉·柏林写道： 在奴隶社会中，几乎所有人——自由的或被奴役的——希望进入奴隶主阶级，有时一些从前是奴隶的加入了奴隶主行里中。