the beginnings of a remarkable relationship.

[标志着]一段非比寻常的关系的开始
But in '64 Lincoln invites Douglass

但是在64年林肯邀请道格拉斯[会面]
and Douglass didn't know

道格拉斯并不知道
what he was going to be asked to do.

他将被要求做些什么
And they sat down for about forty-five minutes,

他们坐下来谈了四十五分钟
eye to eye, and Abraham Lincoln asked Frederick Douglass

彼此观点一致之后林肯要求道格拉斯
to lead a campaign

领导一次运动
to funnel as many slaves out of the upper south

使尽可能多的奴隶能在十一月大选开始前
into some kind of security in the North, before election day in November,

离开上南方进入北方寻求保护
because he feared he would not be re-elected

因为他担心他不能重新当选
and he wanted as many slaves as possible

他想让尽可能多的奴隶
to be secure within Union lines

在联邦领土上获得保护