I think a bit inappropriately, uses the term genocide,

我觉得使用种族灭绝不太恰当
that it was a result of a wish for genocide

它的确是因希望种族灭绝而导致的后果
It is mass murder by any definition

不论如何它都是大屠杀
What happened is that with these two competing governments in Louisiana—

情况是路易斯安那州的两个对立的政府
Democrat Fusion government and the Republican government—

民主党的联盟政府与共和党政府
both would appoint sheriffs in the same parish

会分别向同一个郡县指派治安官
So there was the Republican sheriff, who was black,

结果就有共和党的治安官是黑人
and there was the Democratic sheriff, who was white

还有个民主党的治安官白人
Local officials of all kinds are being appointed

指派了各种各样的地方官员
Well what happened is that the violence

结果嘛就是
in the countryside got so bad, in Grant Parish,

乡下的暴力蔓延以至于在格兰特县
that the blacks in the area began leaving their cabins

当地黑人开始离开他们的家园