norfolk city near halifax where they went to a hotel, and here is where northern anti-black sentiments ktm. because they would check into a hotel and if the proprietors said you can't check in here, he looked at william and said you can check in here, we don't allow black people in here, but she can. your master, you know, can. and so william didn't fight it. he said, okay, then she gets through and i'll go somewhere else. so she checked in. the room was upstairs. when she checked in, of course people who work there and all of that, and she ordered dinner, but she ordered dinner for two. instead of one. and the hotel staff, including the black people who worked in the hotel, had a conversation wondering who is going to show up to have dinner with her, because it clearly could have been this black guy because this black guy was a slave. then they were even more amazed when dinnertime came and he walked up the stairs instead knocking on the door and allowing and asking, you know, for her to allow him to come in, he just opened the door and walking. and they were just dumbfounded as to what w