There were four million freedmen and most of them on the same plantation, doing the same work that they did before emancipation, except as their work had been interrupted and changed by the upheaval of war.
这400万获得自由的人们大部分还是像解放前一前，在同一个种植园做同一份工作，只不过这份工作因战争及其所带来的剧变有所中断而已。