So Viney puts down this name—the last name she ever knew her son to have.

亚历克斯：所以维尼记下了这个名字——她所知道的儿子的姓氏。

But this Viney was being sold with a daughter named Sophia.

亚历克斯：但是这个维尼是和一个名叫索菲亚的女儿一起出售的。

I hope that Viney got to visit Levi's cabin.

我希望维尼能参观李维斯的小屋。

When Levi left this land, when Viney left this land, what did they do?

当利威尔离开这片土地，当维尼离开这片土地时，他们做了什么？

And this whole time we're reading, we're also scanning to see if we can find the names Viney and Levi.

亚历克斯：在我们阅读的整个过程中，我们也在扫描，看看是否可以找到维尼和利维这两个名字。

And most of all, I hope that at the age of 97, Viney finally got to meet her grandkids.

最重要的是，我希望维尼在 97 岁时终于能见到她的孙子们。

And there's also a Melvina Banks, who sometimes goes by Viney.

还有梅尔维娜·班克斯（Melvina Banks），有时也被称为维尼（Viney）。

So Viney could have used one last name for a while, and then just changed her mind.

亚历克斯：所以维尼可能会使用一个姓氏一段时间，然后就改变了主意。

And it's in this community that Viney made a home and grew old.

亚历克斯：维尼就是在这个社区安家并长大的。

And Nicka thinks that any one of these women—maybe even more than one of them—could be our Viney.

尼卡认为这些女性中的任何一位——甚至可能不止一位——都可以成为我们的维尼。

Or in Viney's case, use the name.

亚历克斯：或者在维尼的例子中，使用这个名字。

And as for Viney, four years after she was sold with her daughter Sophia to Abraham's son, the Civil War begins.

至于维尼，在她和女儿索菲亚被卖给亚伯拉罕的儿子四年后，内战开始了。

There's also a Susan and a Louisa and a Millie living nearby, and all three of these people were sold in the same auction that Viney was.

亚历克斯：附近还有一个苏珊、一个路易莎和一个米莉，这三个人都在维尼所在的同一个拍卖会上被出售。

And the kind of small but incredible thing here is that since she's been free, there's been no documentation that Viney's ever used the name Nesom.

亚历克斯：这里有一件小但令人难以置信的事情是，自从她获得自由以来，没有任何文件表明维尼曾经使用过 Nesom 这个名字。

And we can't know because, of course, there are no documents on this, but it's possible—and I hope that because Levi kept the name Nesom and Viney used the name Nesom—that they were able to find each other.

我们无法知道，因为当然没有这方面的文件，但他们有可能找到彼此——我希望因为利维保留了尼瑟姆这个名字，而维尼使用了尼瑟姆这个名字。