And 72 hours by train he found himself on a huge cotton plantation, near Pickensville, Alabama, on the in west central Alabama, on the Mississippi border, at 14-years-old.

在搭乘了七十二小时的火车后,他发现自己身处亚拉巴马的皮肯斯维尔附近,一个巨大的棉花种植园中,在亚拉巴马西部的中心,密西西比的边界,那年他仅仅十四岁

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And I worked with that account book, because one of the two slaves I write about in this new book called A Slave No More I publish their two narratives was indeed a young 14-year-old teenager, sold out of North Carolina--from Snow Hill, North Carolina, he was sold in 1860 to Hector Davis in Richmond.

我研究过这本账簿,因为我在这本新著《从奴隶到自由》中,引用了两名奴隶的自述,当时他们年仅十四岁,其中一个从北卡罗来纳州,从北卡罗来纳的斯诺希尔被卖掉,在1860年被卖给了,里士满的赫克托·戴维斯

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选