. >> susanna ashton, how did you select the narratives you included in your work? >> we were looking for out of print narrative. mayors which were not largely known at all for other reasons. and also narratives which might be no, but were not known as south carolinians. boston kings one the 18th 18th century slaves, he is known in british abolition circles. is been identified in transatlantic connections. but he was from south carolina and affected to british lunch in the american revolution. then went to canada, to nova scotia and into africa when he ended up his memoir. so including them as a south carolinians was a new way to conceive of his history. people like that. when a collection of seven people that were not well known or were known in other contexts. for the first time ever we could bring them back into print and put them together and see the connections between the moral coherent narrative of what the store in south drive slavery was like. >> what were the major themes included in the recollections. >> well, there were both small and big themes. there w