and there were some 9300 teachers at one time or another

当时共有9300余名教师同时任职
employed in Freedmen's Bureau schools, up into the 1870s

他们受雇于自由人事务局直到70年代
They had at one point slightly more than

这些学校共招收了
a quarter million students in these schools,

25万余名学生
freedmen, young and old;

包括自由人不论年龄
sixty-eight, seventy-two year-old former slaves would sit down

花甲甚至耄耋之年的奴隶也会和八岁儿童
in the same room with eight year-olds

同坐一间教室上课
and begin to try to read out of the same reader

然后一起学习同一张字母表
And there were in some ways

对于南方的白人来说
nothing more threatening, to white Southerners--

这对他们是最大的威胁了
actually there were two

实际上有两方面事情
things most threatening to white Southerners,

南方的人们最为感到害怕