There were remnants of slaves

在十九世纪初还有许多
still traversing the north in the eighteen-teens.

未被解放的奴隶在北方流浪
He tried Divinity School

他十六岁的时候
for a little while at the age of sixteen,

上过一段时间的神学院
but said he quit because of insufficient funds

据说他因为交不起学费而被迫退学了
and because all the reading caused him sore eyes.

而且由于他经常看书造成他眼睛疼痛
He experienced a confession of faith in his father's church,

他在其父的教堂里做过一次信仰宣言
a congregational, old-fashioned Calvinist congregational church,

那是一座老式的加尔文基督教会公理堂
when he was about sixteen.

那时候他大约十六岁
He married first in 1820.

1820年他第一次结婚
His first wife would die on him.

他的第一任妻子因他而死
He had no less than twenty children

他在三十年里娶了两个妻子