guinea in west africa. please join me in welcoming, welcoming either feels black to the library in baltimore discuss her latest work. thank you much it's to be here today in baltimore. wonderful to be so close to harriet tubman's birthplace today on pub day, which is official day that can be is released. i want to thank the enoch pratt library for inviting i want to thank. agent and my editor and the entire team at oxford university press and i want to thank my family, which has supported me throughout this rather long and tortuous journey. it's fun to say that on the day, right? that actually brought things to fruition. i want to be that we're starting out in the right place. that's where we need to start. okay. so as i mentioned, the pub day four can be and i'm excited to tell you today what happened on june first and second of 1863 when harriet tubman and her group of spies, scouts and pilots piloted colonel james montgomery, the second south carolina volunteer, which were black soldiers, the third rhode