But by 1870 I found him in a census manuscript

但是我在1870年的一份人口普查表中
living in the 300-block of Thompson Street

发现他住在汤普森街300号
in what you and I call Greenwich Village.

我们现在叫做格林威治村的地方
He got his mother, his four siblings,

他有母亲他的四个兄弟姐妹
somehow, out of North Carolina,

不知怎样他们离开了被卡罗莱纳州
and they were all living in a tenement house,

他们都住在出租房里
surviving, as part of the first generation of a black working class,

像大多数第一代黑人工人阶级那样
former slaves, in a northern city.

这些从前的奴隶在北方的城市生活下来
He lived till 1916.

他活到1916年
He's buried in Cyprus Hill Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

他葬在纽约布鲁克林区的塞浦路斯山公墓
The point of all of that is that

所有这些中最重要的一点是
these slaves escaping were real people,

这些逃跑的奴隶是真正的人