大學英語綜合教程第三冊 3

[00:00.00] In 2004 a center in honor of the "underground railroad" opens in Cincinnati.The railroad was unususl. [00:09.25]It sold no tickets and had no trains.Yet it carried thousands of passengers to the destination of their dreams. [00:18.68]THE FREEDOM GIVERS’ By Ferqus M. Bordewich [00:24.53]A gentle breeze swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two-story house. [00:32.78]Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress,my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden, [00:43.36]Ontario,was home to a hero in American history.As we walked toward a plain gray church. [00:52.48]Barbara Carter spoken proudly of her great-great-grand-father,Josiah Henson. [01:00.45]"He was confident that the Creator intended all men to be created equal.And he never gave up struggling for that freedom." [01:10.69]2 Carter's devotion to her ancestor is about more than personal pride:it is about family honor. [01:20.43]For Josiah Henson has lived on through the character in American fiction that he helped inspire:Uncle Tom, [01:30.51]the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. [01:36.73]Ironically,that character has come to symbolize everything Henson was not.A racial sell out unwilling to stand up for himself? [01:47.81]Carter gets angry at the thought."Josiah Henson was a man of principle,"she said firmly. [01:56.22]3I had traveled here to Henson's last home-now a historic site that Carter formerly directed-to learn more about a man who was, [02:08.08]in many ways an African-American Moses.After winning his own freedom from slavery, [02:16.15]Henson secretly helped hundreds of other slaves to escape north to Canada--and liberty.Many settled here in Dresden with him. [02:27.64]4 Yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me. [02:33.84]Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, [02:44.47]a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South. [02:53.48]Between1820 and1860,as many as100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom. [03:03.22]5 In October 2000, President Clinton authorized$16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center [03:14.43]to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the U.S.The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati.And it's about time. [03:27.60]For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered,their exploits still largely unsung. [03:37.50]I was intent on telling their stories. [03:41.91]6 John Parker tensed when he heard the soft knock.Peering out his door into the night, [03:49.49]he recognized the face of a trusted neighbor."There's a party of escaped slaves hiding in the woods in Kentucky, [03:58.42]twenty miles from the river,"the man whispered urgently. [04:03.28]Parker didn't hesitate."I'll go,"he said,pushing a pair of pistols into his pockets. [04:11.61]7 Born a slave two decades before,in the 1820s, [04:17.23]Parker had been taken from his mother at age eight and forced to walk in chains from Virginia to Alabama, [04:26.37]where he was sold on the slave market.Determined to live free someday,he managed to get trained in iron molding. [04:36.22]Eventually he saved enough money working at this trade on the side to buy his freedom.Now,by day, [04:45.60]Parker worked in an iron foundry in the Ohio port of Ripley.By night he was a"conductor" on the Underground Railroad, [04:57.35]helping people slip by the slave hunters.In Kentucky,where he was now headed, [05:05.16]there was a$1000 reward for his capture,dead or alive. [05:11.25]8 Crossing the Ohio River on that chilly night,Parker found ten fugitives frozen with fear."Get your bundles and follow me, [05:22.17]" he told them,leading the eight men and two women toward the river. [05:28.05]They had almost reached shore when a watchman spotted them and raced off to spread the news. [05:36.20]9 Parker saw a small boat and,with a shout,pushed the escaping slaves into it.There was room for all but two. [05:45.78]As the boat slid across the river,Parker watched helplessly [05:52.03]as the pursuers closed in around the men he was forced to leave behind. [05:58.11]10 The others made it to the Ohio shore, [06:02.14]where Parker hurriedly arranged for a wagon to take them to the next “station” [06:08.61]on the Underground Railroad--the first leg of their journey to safety in Canada.Over the course of his life, [06:18.12]John Parker guided more than400 slaves to safety. [06:23.48]11 While black conductors were often motivated by their own painful experiences, [06:30.27]whites were commonly driven by religious convictions.Levi Coffin,a Quaker raised in North Carolina,explained, [06:40.67]“The Bible,in bidding us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked,said nothing about color.” [06:48.27]12 In the 1820s Coffin moved west to Newport(new Fountain City),Indiana,where he opened a store. [06:58.09]Word spread that fleeing slaves could always find refuge at the Coffin home. [07:04.59]At times he sheltered as many as 17 fugitives at once, [07:10.37]and he kept a team and wagon ready to convey them on the next leg of their journey.Eventually three principal routes [07:20.76]converged at the Coffin house,which came to be the Crand Central Terminal of the Underground Railroad. [07:29.44]13 For his efforts,Coffin received frequent death threats and warnings that his stores and home would be burned. [07:38.58]Nearly every conductor faced similar risks--or worse.In the North, [07:45.76]a magistrate might have imposed a fine or a brief jail sentence for aiding those escaping.In the Southern states, [07:55.98]whites were sentenced to months or even years in jail.One courageous Methodist minister,Calvin Fairbank, [08:07.08]was imprisoned for more than 17 years in Kentucky,where he kept a log of his beatings:35,105 stripes with the whip. [08:20.06]14 As for the slaves,escape meant a journey of hundreds of miles through unknown country, [08:27.22]where they were ususlly easy to recognize. [08:31.32]With no road signs and few maps,they had to put their trust in directions passed by word of mouth [08:39.58]and in secret signs--nails driven into trees,for example--that conductors used to mark the route north. [08:49.08]15 Many slaves traveled under cover of night,their faces sometimes caked with white powder. [08:56.74]Quakers often dressed their"passengers",both male and female,in gray dresses,deep bonnets and full veils.On one occasion, [09:08.65]Levi Coffin was transporting so many runaway slaves that he disguised them as a funeral procession. [09:17.53]16 Canada was the primary destination for many fugitives.Slavery had been abolished there in 1833, [09:27.38]and Canadian authorities encouraged the runaways to settle their vast virgin land.Among them was Josiah Henson. [09:37.93]17 As a boy in Maryland,Henson watched as his entire family was sold to different buyers, [09:45.56]and he saw his mother harshly beaten when she tried to keep him with her. [09:52.04]Making the best of his lot,Henson worked diligently and rose far in his owner's regard. [10:00.19]18 Money problems eventually compelled his master to send Henson,his wife and children to a brother in Kentucky. [10:09.57]After laboring there for several years,Henson heard alarming news:the new master [10:17.64]was planning to sell him for plantation work far away in the Deep South.The slave would be separated forever from his family. [10:28.24]19 There was only one answer:flight."I knew the North Star,"Henson wrote years later. [10:37.10]"Like the star of Bethlehem,it announced where my salvation lay." [10:43.42]20 At huge risk,Henson and his wife set off with their four children.Two weeks later,starving and exhausted, [10:53.27]the family reached Cincinnati,where they made contact with members of the Underground Railroad. [11:00.98]"Carefully they provided for our welfare,and then they set us thirty miles on our way by wagon." [11:09.47]21 The Hensons continued north,arriving at last in Buffalo,N.Y.There a friendly captain pointed across the Niagara River. [11:21.53]"Do you see those trees?he said.They grow on free soil." He gave Henson a dollar and arranged for a boat, [11:30.99]which carried the slave and his family across the river to Canada. [11:36.63]22 I threw myself on the ground,rolled in the sand and danced around,till, [11:43.92]in the eyes of several who were present,I passed for a madman.'He's some crazy fellow,'said a Colonel Warren.” [11:54.27]23 "'Oh,no!Don't you know?I'm free!'" 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