so, so nancy weston, according to her son, nancy weston, could neither read nor write. i always preface that this is according to her sons recollection and recollection of. family members who were the westons was that nancy was adamant her sons. colored westerns as she called them so that sort of free family but that they were grim kids as well and. there's a lot of sort of historians who have done a lot of work on that. there's book by chakrabarti meyers. that's forging freedom. it's about free black women, charleston and how they kind of negotiate their lives within this sort of very racially and, sexually violent charleston at the time. and so she was somebody or nancy was somebody who definitely saw around her, particularly her own family, black, who had to become or negotiate freedom through their relationships with white men. her own sister, lydia, had sons with a family called the cardozo family. and the cardozo family were slaveholding family. but they sent the black women. they had children with to the north. and so that that those women and children lived free.