White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns to bring water, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking.

白人、混血儿和黑人孩子们总是在那儿排队等着提水，大家在那里休息，交换玩具，争吵，打架，嬉戏。

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And he says of his own writing, "I had tried to convey something of what it felt like to be a Negro, and no one had been able to listen.

作者自己也这小说里写道：“我曾试着去和身边人,传达那种我想成为黑人的强烈感觉，但没人能听进去。

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The Negro who flees the South is really a refugee.

的确，逃到南方的黑人就是一个难民。

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Alexander H. Stephens, a Georgian, a slaveholder, said the cornerstone of the Confederacy, the cornerstone of their political movement, was what he called "American Negro slavery."

亚历山大· H·斯蒂芬斯,一个来自乔治亚州的奴隶主,用他的演讲为邦联打下了基石,这块邦联政治运动的基石,被他称为,"美国的黑人奴隶制度"

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