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

A number of men, as one historian has written, I think quite effectively, "Mounted from log cabin to mansion" and I quote "On a stairway of cotton bales accumulating slaves as they went."

一些人就像一位历史学家写的那样,我觉得非常犀利,引述一段,"小木屋通往大厦的阶梯正是由,奴隶们用棉花包堆积成的"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

On cotton.

靠的就是棉花

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选