but what happened between you anand ithink that story, they dd out of sight in part because it didn't fit the traditional narratives. it was much more complicated and middleground. but the stories of the court cases, that have been told, but the people at the center had been given full attention. so, i think the other final thing to say is the collaboration of historians moving outside of just writing their own nation's history to the atlantic history allows the scholars to put together different parts of a story. it took me so long to write about because i was able to come closer and closer into a transnational type of scholars that were able to see things from both sides are many more sides of the atlantic world. >> the first thing i will say is californian people have always known the story and never forgot so in all of the visits this is not a surprising story for them and it is told in excruciating details that are alive and well today. the stories were not hidden in a vault i happened to find somewhere. they were in plain sight. if you were reading the newspapers of the 19th cen