 Now, one thing that this document won't tell you is in and of itself, and I can't say that I know the answers to this myself, but who William Hall and Charles Shield are. But you can kind of make some educated guesses. This is happening. The sale is recorded in Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk is on the coast. It's 1853. Virginia is an old part of the kind of slave south of Chesapeake. There are hundreds of thousands of enslaved people in Virginia. But the real money in 1853 to be made in slavery is not in Virginia. It's in the New Southwest. It's in places like Louisiana and Alabama, Mississippi. A lot of legal cases developed over this because people wanted to make sure they were getting maximized profits for the sale of the estate, including slaves. And it was found that items sell best when sold separately. In other words, given the opportunity to sell a family self-contained as a lot to an individual or to sell them as individuals, more money would be made selling them as individuals. And because the courts have a fiduciary responsibility in making sure that the errors get the best bargain that they can from the estate, they're mandated to sell separately. So it reminds one that there are hundreds of thousands of families that are being broken up through these types of trade. It's also a good thing to stop and think about how often we talk about the transatlantic slave trade. But to consider the domestic slave trade as well as being a great tragedy and something that continued to repave it for years and years, some of the saddest documents that one can find are in African-American newspapers and magazines. Sometimes 10, 20 years after the Civil War, they're often called information-wanted notices looking for a mother or a sister or a child still trying to find their family members.