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When the US government forced more than 60,000 native Americans to relocate to Oklahoma to make way for white settlers in the 1830s, their slaves came with them.

19世纪30年代，美国政府迫使6万多名美洲原住民迁往俄克拉荷马州 ，为白人定居者腾出土地 ，他们的奴隶也一同前往 。

After emancipation, the freed slaves, known as freedmen, settled and built their own towns.

解放后，获得自由的奴隶，即所谓的自由民，定居下来并建造了自己的城镇。

Where they would have the opportunity to live amongst people that looked like them, amongst people who understood the plights that they had escaped from, but ready to embark upon a new opportunity, form their own government in terms of their mayors and their elected officials, all of whom were like them, and it was an amazing opportunity.

在那里，他们将有机会与和自己长相相似的人生活在一起，与那些理解他们所逃离的困境的人生活在一起，同时准备好迎接新的机遇，按照自己的意愿选举市长和官员来组建自己的政府，而所有这些官员都和他们一样，这真是一个绝佳的机会。

The fully self-sufficient communities thrived in the 1910s. The town of Boley was flourishing, with hotels, doctors, lawyers, schools, colleges, and restaurants.

完全自给自足的社区在20世纪10年代蓬勃发展。博利镇一派繁荣景象，有酒店、医生、律师、学校、学院和餐馆。

They had their own newspaper in Boley. They had their own phone company.

他们在博利有自己的报纸。他们有自己的电话公司。

So it was a bevy of commercial and residential life, not to mention the thousands of farms around most of these towns.

这里有大量的商业和住宅生活设施，更不用说这些城镇周边还有成千上万个农场了。

But the Great Depression of the 1930s took a toll on the all-black towns.

但20世纪30年代的大萧条对全黑人城镇造成了沉重打击。

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