And when he bid them goodbye,

当他与他们告别的时候
one of them gave him the revolver

其中一个逃奴把自己在
that he had used at Christiana,

克里斯蒂安用过的左轮手枪送给他
a memento that Douglass kept the rest of his life.

道格拉斯将这个纪念品保存了一生
Resistance to slavery was now direct, sometimes violent.

抵抗奴隶制的运动变得又直接又暴力
The Underground Railroad had become an over ground railroad.

"地下铁路"变成了地上铁路
It was no longer caught up in the romance

再也不像小说中讲的那样
of a whole lot of people spiriting people to secret hideaways.

一大群人把人偷偷藏入秘密的隐蔽处
It was sometimes now a matter of gun violence.

当时抵抗奴隶制有时候就意味着枪战
And one could argue that the most important thing to happen

可以说在逃奴法案之后发生的
in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act,

也就是1850妥协案之后发生的
and therefore the Compromise of 1850,

最重要的事情