The Yankee soldiers backed them up in anything they chose to do, and the surest way for a white person to get himself into trouble was to bring a complaint of any kind against a negro.

• 无论黑人想干什么，北方佬士兵总是替他们撑腰，而白人要想让自己惹祸，最有效的办法就是去控告黑人。