In this episode, we explore shattering the emancipation proclamation fairy tale. looking at this massive stack of historical sources and primary documents in front of us today, it honestly just completely shatters a fairy tale. Yeah, it really does. I mean, it's a comforting narrative, right? We generally like our history to be, you know, clean, deeply moral and absolute. Right, like you always expect this purity. The hero signs the parchment, the trumpet sound, the chains fall away, and the bad thing just instantly disappears. But then you actually step into the real ink and paper of the emancipation. patient proclamation and suddenly that whole fairy tale is just, it's broken. It really is because we are looking at a legal and political landscape that is murky, it's highly calculated and deeply compromised. Exactly. So our mission in today's deep  ...