by a mob of abolitionists led by Lewis Hayden,

在现场杀害了一名狱卒
himself a fugitive slave from Kentucky,

刘易斯自己也是个肯塔基逃奴
who lived in Beacon Hill in Boston

曾经在波士顿的贝肯山住过
and dared Federal magistrates to come to his house

并且挑衅联邦治安官不敢进他家
and try to retrieve Shadrack Minkins

以及带了一整支武装队上街
by putting an entire posse on the street,

来营救沙德拉·明金斯
and a keg of gun powder in front of his door,

在他家门口放一小桶火药
which he threatened he would blow up if any magistrate got near it.

他威胁说只要治安官靠近就把它炸了
And that night they spirited Shadrach

那晚他们偷偷地把沙德拉
off to Concord, massachusetts

带到马萨诸塞的康科德
where the descendents of abolitionists

后来这些反奴主义者的后代们
to this day like to argue which house he stayed in,

喜欢争论他当时住的是哪一间屋子