4 Escape!

Chapter 4 Escape! Frederick was now six feet tall, strong, and smart. Master Hugh hired him out to one of the many shipyards in Baltimore. Frederick was to do whatever jobs were needed. "Fred, bring that roller here!—Fred, go get a fresh can of water—Fred, come help saw off the end of this timber." For eight months, Frederick worked alongside free blacks and whites. At another shipyard, Frederick learned to caulk, or fill the cracks in a ship's hull so it wouldn't leak. Within a year, Frederick was earning as much as nine dollars a week. All this money went to Master Hugh. Frederick felt he was being robbed of his own wages. Master Hugh hadn't earned the money. Why should he get to keep it? The reason was slavery. And the only answer was to once again plan an escape.

第4章逃跑！弗雷德里克现在有六英尺高，强壮，聪明。 休师傅把他雇到巴尔的摩众多造船厂中的一家。 弗雷德里克要做任何需要做的工作。 “弗雷德，把那个滚轮拿来！”弗雷德，去拿一罐水来——弗雷德，来帮忙锯掉这根木头的末端。” 弗雷德里克与自由的黑人和白人一起工作了八个月。 在另一家造船厂，弗雷德里克学会了填缝，或者填补船体上的裂缝，这样就不会漏水。 不到一年，弗雷德里克每周就能挣到9美元。 这些钱都归休师傅所有。 弗雷德里克觉得自己的工资被抢了。 休少爷没有挣到钱。 他为什么要留着它？ 原因是奴隶制。唯一的办法就是再一次计划逃跑。

Frederick needed to set some money aside for himself. He convinced Master Hugh to let him find his own work. Frederick would buy his own food and tools and pay for a place to live. All these expenses would cost about six dollars a week. Master Hugh wouldn't have to pay for any of them. In addition, every Saturday Frederick would give Master Hugh three dollars. This was a good deal for Master Hugh, who didn't have to support Frederick any longer. But it was hard for Frederick, who would have to caulk six days a week and pick up other jobs, too. Still, he was up for the challenge and managed to put away a little of the money each week.

弗雷德里克需要为自己留些钱。 他说服休师傅让他自己找工作。 弗雷德里克会自己买食物和工具，自己付房租住。 所有这些费用每周大约要花费6美元。 休师傅就不用为他们付钱了。 此外，每个星期六弗雷德里克都会给休少爷三块钱。 这对休少爷来说是笔好买卖，他再也不用养活弗雷德里克了。 但这对弗雷德里克来说很困难，他必须每周工作六天，还要接其他工作。 尽管如此，他还是接受了挑战，并设法每周存下一点钱。

During this time Frederick met a free black woman named Anna Murray. Anna worked as a housekeeper for a rich white family. She and Frederick fell in love and hoped to marry.

在此期间，弗雷德里克遇到了一位名叫安娜·默里的自由黑人妇女。 安娜在一个有钱的白人家庭做管家。 她和弗雷德里克坠入爱河，并希望结婚。

One weekend in August, Frederick was late bringing Master Hugh his three dollars. Angry, Master Hugh stopped letting Frederick hire himself out for jobs. Frederick went back to living with his master. This was something he could not endure. With the money he had saved, and more from Anna, he would make a run for the North. He set a date he would leave: September 3, 1838. Anna would follow later. As the date approached, Frederick grew uneasy. If he were caught again, he would surely be sold farther south. There, it would be much harder to escape, because the distance to any free state would be so much longer. Anna carefully tailored Frederick's clothing to look like the uniform of a sailor.

八月的一个周末，弗雷德里克给休师傅送三块钱来晚了。 休少爷生气了，不再让弗雷德里克出去找工作。 弗雷德里克回去和他的主人住在一起。 这是他无法忍受的。 用他攒下的钱，再加上安娜给他的钱，他要逃到北方去。 他定下了离开的日期：1838年9月3日。 安娜随后也来了。随着日期的临近，弗雷德里克变得不安起来。 如果他再次被抓住，他肯定会被卖到更远的南方。 在那里，它很难逃逸，因为到任何自由态的距离都要长得多。 安娜细心地把弗雷德里克的衣服剪裁得像水手的制服。

On Monday morning, Frederick left the Auld house for work, as usual. But instead of going to the shipyard, Frederick boarded a northbound train from Baltimore. He wore a red shirt, a black tie knotted loosely around his neck, and a

星期一早晨，弗雷德里克像往常一样离开老房子去上班。 但弗雷德里克没有去造船厂，而是登上了一列从巴尔的摩向北行驶的火车。 他穿着一件红衬衫，黑色领带松松地系在脖子上，戴着一把

broad-brimmed sailor's hat. As proof of his freedom, he carried a friend's seaman's papers. These papers described Frederick's friend—who had much darker skin than Frederick. If anyone looked closely and discovered this, Frederick would be arrested. On the train, the conductor asked Frederick for his free papers. "My whole future depended upon the decision of this conductor," Frederick knew. Satisfied by the American eagle on top of the seaman's papers, the conductor looked no further.

宽边水手帽。 为了证明他是自由的，他带了一个朋友的海员证书。 这些文件描述了弗雷德里克的朋友——他的皮肤比弗雷德里克黑得多。 如果有人仔细观察，发现了这一点，弗雷德里克就会被逮捕。 在火车上，列车员向弗雷德里克索要免费证件。 “我的整个未来都取决于这位售票员的决定，”弗雷德里克知道。 售票员对海员证件上的美国鹰很满意，没有再往下看。