ana lucia: of course, there is a .ertain impact the kind of work that i do, i study memories. what i do is to understand how in the present people they engage with the past. of course, look at the issue of slavery through this lens. many of the debates we have about what happened, what has really happened, and then during the period of the transatlantic slave trade, slavery, the fact that this past remained invisible to us in the public time, with very long plantations in the south or virginia, or new york, and we would not see anything related to slavery. this new visibility of the of people the product who are alive today and two are pushing to make this reality visible because of the racial inequalities, racism, and the persistency of white supremacy. of course, there is an impact of people who are visiting this side, they are leaving people and demanding people for this past to be recognized. these demands, these claims, it is not something about the past. it is not something about what is in the books, but it is about the legacies. atother words, we can look historians an