. >> susana ashton, how did you select the narrative you included in your edited work? >> we were looking, um, my research team and i were looking for out of print narratives, narratives which weren't largely known, and also narratives which might be known but weren't known in south carolina. boston kings is one of the 18th century slaves, he's known in british abolitionist circles, he's been identified with transatlantic connections, but he actually was from south carolina and defected to british lines during the american revolution, then went to canada and nova scotia and then to africa where he ended up writing his memoir. so including him as a south carolinian was a new way to conceive of his history. so people like that. we had a collection of seven people that weren't well known or known in other contexts and for the first time ever we could bring them back into print and put them together and see the connections between the more coherent narrative of what the story of south carolina slavery was like. >> and what were the major theme included in the reflections? >