for blacks in the great Red River District of Central Louisiana

对于那些路易斯安那中部红河地区的黑人
By the way, the Red River Region of Central Louisiana

顺带一句路易斯安那中部红河地区
was some of the richest soil in all of the South

曾是整个南方土地最肥沃的地方之一
It was a tremendous sugar and cotton plantation region

是重要的糖和棉花产地
Several thousand acres of that Red River District, right around Colfax,

科尔法克斯周围的红河地区有几千公顷
was owned by a white landowner named Willie Calhoun, William Calhoun

的土地属于白人地主威廉·卡尔霍恩
He was the son of Meredith Calhoun,

他是梅雷迪思·卡尔霍恩的儿子
who had been a very, very proslavery,

此公特别支持奴隶制
huge slaveholder before the Civil War

内战之前拥有极多的奴隶
But his son Willie, who had been raised in part in Europe,

但他儿子威廉姆成长期间在欧洲住过一段
because his parents kept living half the time in Paris,

因为他父母有一半的时间住在巴黎
as a kid was badly, terribly injured

小时候受过重伤