and i know some of you -- have you taken professor camoy's class on slavery? i know she offers one. right. >> slavery requires legal sanction. one of the things that makes slavery different from other forms of property is slaves are also human beings and they have wills and they have the ability to run and the ability to leave. and unless you have a legal apparatus to catch them, force them, confine them, they're -- the institution was going to have a very hard time to survive. so i think -- and gallagher in this reading i think that you have i think spends pages basically demolishing the guerrilla option. and also arguably what's another reason people will get obsessed about the guerrilla option after the 1960s? >> vietnam. >> vietnam. these attempts to compare that, you know, confederates should have been doing what mao did. this is a problematic comparison for obvious reasons. the more -- the more credible alternative is what mr. conners considered, which is what weigley argued, which is that you have -- what part of the revolution is very partisan orientated? the southern part.