谁有介绍美国地下铁路运动的英文文章

THE FREEDOM GIVERS
Fergus M. Bordewich

A gentle breeze swept the Canadian plains as I stepped outside the small two-story house. Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress, my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden['drezdən], Ontario [ɔn'tεəriəu] 安大略省得雷斯顿, was home to a hero in American history. As we walked toward a plain gray church, Barbara Carter spoke proudly of her great-great-grandfather, Josiah [dʒəu'saiə] Henson. “He was confident that the Creator intended all men to be created equal. And he never gave up struggling for that freedom.”
Carter’s devotion to her ancestor is about more than 不仅仅关乎一己之骄傲personal pride: it is about family honor. For Josiah Henson has lived on through仍为人所知是由于 the character in American fiction that he helped inspire: Uncle Tom, the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s [stəu] Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Ironically, that character has come to sy