solomon northup was someone who was shipped to louisiana and wrote very vividly about a lot of things about what new orleans was like, about what the plantation life was like. and that was very instructive. he also wrote about being reunited with his family, and unfortunately, that was not something that happened to the two sisters who were split by the sale. but his his experience was was very and you get to hear his voice, which is helpful. thank you. yeah. hi, i'm my name as genuine visiting from new york great talk wondering i've also been reading about the other scandal which broke about catholic children. well, there is an overlap that is the thing i've been reading about the boarding schools and it's. a cavalry soldiers that said so was there overlap in terms of the same church organization more than both of these or how was that and think you're talking about the indigenous. yeah. boarding school. yeah. yeah, i, i'm glad you mention that because i would not want my sort of introduce of that subject about oppression leading to oppression, the different views for people to think

first, for those who solomon northup being, if you those of you saw years a slave who was a free black ithe north, who was kidnaped, sold back into slavery and of course, the southern had immize themselves from from from having to pay compensation for people who were wrongly re enslaved. right. so and his his story is very instructive because as i mentioned, one of the challenges when you're writing about enslaved people is is that is the material, frankly like really, really hard to the material and. you know enslaved people were by law and by practice barred from learning to read and write. so the kinds of things you would rely on letters, journals and that kind of thing are not there. so you're for those records that i mentioned, and you're also looking for contemporaneous voices of people at the time who can illuminate something for you. solomon northup was someone who was shipped to louisiana and wrote very vividly about lot of things about what new orleans was like, about what the plantation life was like. and that was very instructive. he also wrote about being reunited with his