And he goes into a discussion,

他对它进行了讨论
as only Du Bois could,

只有杜·波依斯才会这么做
because Du Bois was really a poet-historian

因为杜·波依斯真是一个诗人中的历史学家
or a historian as poet.

或者说历史学中的诗人
He begins to discuss

他开始讨论
how bleak life actually is on the ground, in the South,

南方没有希望的生活到底是什么样的
not just for the freedmen as sharecroppers,

这不仅仅是描述给成为佃农的自由民们的
but for whites as well;

也是给白人的
that poverty is a black and white thing, he says.

贫困不仅属于黑人也属于白人他说
He's got another chapter to come in the book called "The Black Belt,"

他的书中还有一章被他叫做"黑色纽带"
where he shows that,

在那一章他描述了
that poverty is something Southerners share, if they would.

南方人的共性是贫困如果他们愿意承认的话