First of all, Jonathan, thank you so much for picking out that particular sentence. It is one of my it was one of my favorites to write. And even when I listened to you read it, I still get goose bumps or chill bumps, depending on how you how you identify, those bumps on the skin that that that captured that, that kind of rapture that you give me by reading it. And I thank you for that, because one of the things that we're doing this year across 2025 and 2026 is we are celebrating and promptly celebrating the military victories across the American Revolution. And I'm so glad that we're doing that. But in this book, what I do is I try to pull the reader back, and I try to offer a scope, a 20 year scope, from 1763 to 1783 and what that allowed me to do by framing the book and within that 20 year period, it allowed me to focus on the freedom movements that were going on well before those that you mentioned these familiar ones of The American Revolution, and you picked out three men that I think are crucial, that I really want readers of the American Revolution. I really want them to get to know, because I find these men fascinating. And again, I hope the readers will too, and I'll just share a little bit about each one of them. The first one you mentioned was, was mcindoll. Right. So, mcindoll was an enslaved person in Saint domain, which is now Haiti. And I really frame the PROLOG around him and his life, but he and his legacy are a thread throughout the entire book, because in 17, in 1730 after being enslaved, he comes to Saint Domingue. From Africa as an enslaved person. In 1748, he walks away. He becomes a fugitive, and after he gets his freedom by going to the mountains of San domain, living among self, liberated black people. What he does after that is that he returns to the valleys, to these plantations across San domain, and he engages with enslaved communities of Africans, and instead of trying to encourage them to leave and overthrow slavery violently, what he does is he nourishes enslaved black people through spiritual and collective healing, he teaches them about the blackness that they left behind, about what it means to be themselves, even though they were enslaved. And I just like to read one sentence from the PROLOG from the book that I think captures what I believe mcindoll was doing it. Why he was so important, and it's from page five, mcindoll played an important role in rallying descendants of Africa to recall principles instilled within them by families and friends and communities whom they would never see again. And his visits, these stealth visits, these secret visits to these families and enslaved communities, they were interpreted by the proponents of slavery and by the San Dominion authorities as an insurrection by him instilling self worth within the lives of enslaved people that was seen as a threat to slavery, and they executed him. The authorities executed mcindoll on the 20th of January, 1758, while the seven, seven years were still going on, and they made a martyr out of him for black freedom. And I'll just read one last sentence from the book here about mcindoll from page seven in death, mcindoll became a symbol of blackness across the Atlantic world and menace the hold of white supremacy over African bodies. So that was mcindoll, right? And that is, that is nearly, that's 12 years before the Boston Massacre is going on. The other one, you mentioned someone else we mentioned, or I want to introduce our readers to our heroes to from the book, is Jacques Delaunay. And Jacques Delaunay was very different from mackindoll. Delaunay was a free man of color, born free of mixed parentage, a mother of African descent and a French father during the Seven Years War. He had held an officer's commission in the French Army during the during the Seven Years War. And again, I think, for some of our heroes, the idea that black men were officers with authority over white soldiers in the 1750s and 60s. That may be new, and that's what I'm hoping for. I'm really hoping that our readers and our hearers will come away with an understanding of the complexity of black life during the American Revolution, well after the Treaty of 1763, the end of the Seven Years War, France begins to change. Well, let me, let me pause for one second here. After the Treaty of 1764 life in British North America changes, and life in Saint domain changes. And these changes are brought about by the actions of the British imperial government in British North America and by the French imperial government in Saint domain. And so both the colonists in British North America and the colonists in Saint Domingue are struggling with the with these new regulations put down by their by the Imperial governments. And one of the one of the regulations that the French government places in Saint Domingue or Haiti was that black men could no longer hold military rank over white citizens over white militiamen, and so they all they were all stripped. These veterans of the Seven Years War were now stripped of the authority and Jean de Launay led a revolt, a multi racial revolt of black men and white men against the French imperial government in 1769 that's a year before the Boston Massacre. That's a year before an American colonist would be killed by British bullets. But in in Saint Domingue, there was a armed revolt where black men and white men were killed alongside each other in battle, and Jean Delaunay was captured and executed publicly for trying to overthrow the French imperial government in Saint domain. And white Americans are going to read about this. This news of the 1769, revolt in Saint domain will make its way into in newspapers in. Philadelphia, Boston and New York, well before violence plays out in in the British in British North America. And the last one I'll mention here is Paul California. Paul Cornell, like Jacques Delaunay, was born of a mother of African descent and a and a French father. However, his father enslaved him as a son. He eventually is going to Paul is going to eventually get his freedom from his father. He's going to marry malijon and Paul and Mary. John is a married couple. A are going to acquire a great deal of land and become important land holders in inside domain, counting on father is going to accuse him of never having gained his freedom. He's going to take his son to Court. The Court sided with the white father, imprisoned Paul re enslaved him and gave his land to his former enslaver, who was his father, marriage on this is, and this is in 1770 this is only months after the Boston Massacre. So Crispus Attucks dies in Boston, and a month later, Paul Cornell loses his freedom. And then his wife, his black wife, goes to the Governor General, and she pleads with him for her for her husband's freedom, and the Governor General sides with Mary Jo over, a white slaveholder, frees Paul from prison and reinstates his freedom as a free man In San domain. So in all these cases, what I've what I've tried to lay out here is just how complex and how black freedom was so tenuous and fragile in the era of the American Revolution, and it was in by no means a monolith, but we see black people trying to get freedom by running away. We see black people fighting for equality through armed revolt, and we see black people using the court and government systems to attain their freedom, just as white British colonists are writing editorials in the newspaper about the Stamp Act that they are petitioning against the township act, and they're losing their lives in Boston at the Boston Massacre, and only a couple years later they're going to have the Boston Tea Party.