传到北方来的消息说,一个名叫安琪洛·汉顿的黑人青年在乔治亚州被判处了二十年苦役,因为他英勇地领导了二百个失业的男女工人,白人黑人全有,到亚特兰大市政府请愿,要政府多少救济一下普遍存在的饥饿。我看了一下那条对他审讯、定罪、判刑所依据的乔治亚州的法律:这条法律是在整整一世纪之前,即1831年,写入那个州的法典的。在这条法律的前文里 The news that came to the north said that a black young man named Angelique Horton was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in Georgia because of his heroic leadership of 200 unemployed male and female workers, To the Atlanta city government petition, the government how much relief the ubiquity of hunger. I looked at the Georgia law on which he tried, convicted and sentenced him: the law was written into the state’s code until about a century ago, in 1831. In the preamble to this law