It's been surreal. There's no way to describe it. One thing after another. You finally think things are slowing down, and something else happens. It's been a fun year, to say the least.

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

No one is ever old enough to know better

There's no other way to describe it.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

Those ads have become extremely useful to scholars because they are one of the few places that describe slaves physically, their appearance, what type of clothes they wore, whether they were literate, what type of talents they had. While slaves are treated impersonally as a group, when one runs away, then we get a personal description.