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Driving While Black, a documentary by Ric Burns, chronicles the discrimination and violence African-Americans have often encountered while driving.

里克·伯恩斯执导的纪录片《黑人驾驶》记录了非裔美国人在驾车时经常遭遇的歧视和暴力。

In order to understand what's happening today, I felt strongly, we felt strongly that you had to go all the way back to slavery because that's the point where freedom is denied and mobility is denied.

为了理解今天正在发生的事情，我们强烈地感到，你必须一直追溯到奴隶制时期，因为从那时起，自由和迁徙的权利就被剥夺了。

The film documents how during the US Antebellum era plantation owners employed slave patrols to monitor and punish slaves who tried to escape.

这部纪录片记录了在美国内战前时期，种植园主如何雇佣奴隶巡逻队来监视并惩罚试图逃跑的奴隶。

It portrays these slave catchers as a precursor to white supremacists and some local sheriffs of the post-slavery Jim Crow era, who targeted African-American motorists from the 1920s to the 1960s.

它将这些追捕奴隶的人描绘成白人至上主义者的前身，以及奴隶制废除后种族隔离时代某些地方警长的前身，这些警长在20世纪20年代至60年代期间专门针对非裔美国司机。

Liberty is locomotion. It was a form of self-empowerment.

自由即行动；它是一种自我赋权的形式。

You drive automobile, you get to go where you want when you want, not sit in the back of the bus, but also an opening to a whole world of challenge as you now must navigate this spaces where African mobility is seen as worrisome and unpleasant and to be stopped by a large cohort of white Americans.

你驾驶汽车，就能随心所欲地去往想去的地方，不必坐在公交车后排，但这也开启了一个充满挑战的全新世界，因为如今你必须在这样的环境中前行，在这个环境里，非洲裔的出行被视为令人担忧和讨厌的事情，而且还可能会被一大群美国白人拦下。

Barriers grew for black motorists at night. So one of the hazards of driving was encountering people who were less interested in you being in that particular neck of the woods.

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