ms. buckley, you probably have more expertise on this. but to speak briefly about societies where you had escaped slaves together with indigenous americans and rebelling against the system of enslavement and forming their own indigenous society outside the arm's reach of the institution of enslavement. >> you know a lot about it, obviously. after the revolution there was a huge maroon colony in georgia who had formally been fighting with the british. and it took several years for them to be wiped out of what they were. what they would do, they would go into the towns at night and hide out in the swamps and the bayous in the daytime. and they were a very, very powerful force. and they called themselves something like the kings, the king's regiment, they were still feeling british. and because the british did promise freedom and give freedom indeed to most of the people who went into their lines in the war. the seminoles were an interesting part of american history. this was one of the most expensive wars that america ever fought was trying