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Sir! I have seen mothers kissing for the last time the faces of their dead offspring, but never have I seen such an exhibition of intense grief as when Eliza was parted from her child.
先生。我曾多次目睹過母親最后一次親吻逝去的孩子的臉頰，但我卻從沒見過伊萊扎和她的孩子分離時的那種痛徹心扉的悲傷。
Three miles outside Baltimore heading North. A slave on the run. The risk of capture is high.
從巴爾的摩出發(fā)向北三英里，一個奴隸正在逃亡的路上，被抓獲的風險很大。
At most, 1,000 a year are successful. Ears cut off; achilles tendons slashed; branding; all are common punishments if caught.
一年中最多只有一千人成功逃走。割掉耳朵，挑斷腳筋還有打烙印都是被抓后常見的懲罰手段。
Frederick Douglass has failed twice, but won't let that stop him. Men like Douglass are the South's worst nightmare.
弗雷德里克·道格拉斯曾兩次出逃失敗，但失敗無法阻擋他的腳步，道格拉斯這類人是南方最大的夢靨。
He has a better chance than most of passing as a freeman. Unlike 80% of slaves, he can read and write.
和其他人相比，他有更大的機會成為一個自由人，與八成的奴隸不同，他能讀會寫。
Even in the 21st century, we're only three or four generations away from people that not only could not get paid for their labor,
即使在二十一世紀，我們離那個可怕時代也不過隔了三四代而已，那時的人們不但不能靠勞動換取薪酬，
it was against the law for them to read and write, it was against the law for them to marry, it was against the law for them to name their children after themselves.
而且對他們來說讀書寫字是違法的，結(jié)婚也是違法的。對他們來說甚至為孩子冠上自己的姓氏都是違法的。
Ladies and gentlemen, please. Long way to go. Ticket.
女士們先生們，打擾了。您這路可長了。車票呢。
Black Americans must carry documents proving they're free, or who they belong to.
美國黑人必須隨身攜帶文件證明他們是自由的或者主人是誰。
Frederick Douglass has papers borrowed from a friend.
弗雷德里克·道格拉斯從朋友那里借來了證明文件。
Ticket. They won't hold up to careful examination. My whole future depended on the decision of this conductor.
車票呢。但它經(jīng)不住仔細審查。我的命運完全掌握在列車長作出決定的一念之間。
Someone get this chicken.
這雞是誰的，快抱走。
This moment of time was one of the most anxious I ever experienced. Had he looked closely at the paper, he could not have failed to discover that it called for a very different -looking person from myself.
此時此刻是我所經(jīng)歷過的最難熬的時光，如果他仔細查看了這張證明，他一定會發(fā)現(xiàn)照片里的人和我長得完全不一樣。
Frederick Douglass makes it to New York City -- and freedom, and becomes a leading figure in the anti slavery movement.
弗雷德里克·道格拉斯成功來到紐約市獲得了自由，他成了廢奴運動中的領軍人物。
He'll write a best -selling auto biography. He'll meet and debate with Lincoln in the White House.
他成了廢奴運動中的領軍人物。后來他寫了一本暢銷的自傳。再后來他在白宮和林肯會晤并激烈辯論，
At a time when slaves are barely regarded as people, he will become an icon, a celebrity, the best-known African-American in America.
在那個很少把奴隸當人看的年代他將成為一個象征，一個名人。全美最著名的非裔美國人。
