 And in Virginia, on a plantation in the 1850s, there was nothing rational for an enslaved black person to hold on to that settled freedoms coming around the corner. And yet he had that belief. And because he could read, he taught my grandmother to read, who worked as a domestic her whole life into her 90s. But she thought that education was powerful, and she made sure that all of her 10 children were readers. And I'd go see my grandmother, and she'd stand on the porch sometimes, and she'd have books, and she'd make you read a book before she'd let you in the house.