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布克·T·华盛顿：力争上游·摘录 6
布克·T·华盛顿《力争上游》· Up from Slavery · 领导
The first time that I went to Tuskegee I was asked to make an address to the school on Sunday evening. I sat upon the platform of the large chapel and looked forth on a thousand coloured faces, and the choir of a hundred or more behind me sang a familiar religious melody, and the whole company joined in the chorus with unction. I was the only white man under the roof, and the scene and the songs made an impression on me that I shall never forget. Mr. Washington arose and asked them to sing one after another of the old melodies that I had heard all my life; but I had never before heard them sung by a thousand voices nor by the voices of educated Negroes. I had associated them with the Negro of the past, not with the Negro who was struggling upward. They brought to my mind the plantation, the cabin, the slave, not the freedman in quest of education. But on the plantation and in the cabin they had never been sung as these thousand students sang them. I saw again all the old plantations that I had ever seen; the whole history of the Negro ran through my mind; and the inexpressible pathos of his life found expression in these songs as I had never before felt it.
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定位：Excerpt 6 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
作者第一次去塔斯基吉，被邀请在周日晚上对学校讲话。他坐在大教堂的讲台上，望着一千张黑人的脸，背后一百多人的合唱团唱起熟悉的宗教旋律，全场一起深情合唱。他是屋顶下唯一的白人，那个场面和歌声让他永远难忘。华盛顿先生起身，请他们一首接一首唱他从小听过的老歌；但他从没听过一千个声音唱，也没听过受过教育的黑人唱。他过去把这些歌和种植园、木屋、奴隶连在一起，而不是和向上奋斗的自由人连在一起。可种植园和木屋里从没这样唱过。他眼前重现所有见过的老种植园，黑人的全部历史涌上心头，歌声唱出了他从未如此感受过的、无法言说的悲怆。
上下文
这段出自《超越奴役》，记作者首次到塔斯基吉学院，在周日礼拜中听千名学生合唱黑人灵歌的感受。
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