and the halls of state legislatures,

和州议会大楼
who insisted on education and property ownership

他们坚持教育和财产所有制
and all those crazy rights of citizenship?

和所有疯狂的公民权利
Where should black people be in that imagination?

想象一下黑人的社会地位本应该在何处
All right, the election of 1876 comes.

好 1876年的大选来了
If the election of 1874 was a referendum on Reconstruction,

如果1874年选举是就重建问题的公民投票
the election of 1876 was a referendum, if you like, on reunion.

那么1876年选举就是关于重聚的公民投票
How indeed would this reunion actually occur?

重聚实际上怎样发生了
Would there really truly be a reunion?

真的是一场重聚吗
Now this was an election, of course,

现在这是一场选举
where both parties now,

一场两党自内战以来
for the first time since the Civil--

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