working in the three-story slave jail auction house in Richmond.

在里士满的一个三层楼的奴隶拍卖行工作
His job every day was preparing the slaves

他每天的工作就是在一个叫做更衣室的地方
in what was called the dressing room,

准备好这些奴隶
to take them out to the auction floor.

然后把他们带到拍卖场
And one day he's simply told, "Boy, you're in the auction."

有一天他被告知伙计你今天被拍卖了
And he was sold to an alabama cotton planter

他被卖给一个的阿拉巴马州的棉花主
named James Chalmers.

叫詹姆斯·查默斯
Seventy-two hours later by train

坐了七十二个小时的火车后
he found himself on a huge cotton operation

他到了阿拉巴马州内靠近伯金斯维尔镇的
near Pickensville, Alabama,

一个巨大的棉花公司里
which is

那个公司
right about there,

大致就在那儿