Of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870, two parcels of land, for the express purpose of building a house of worship. In the sale document we have from the courthouse, they named antiyokeregation the congregation. That message of being against slavery is something important to our story here. This is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river. We are talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our to her here in this building so we can see what happens to people our tour here in this building so we can see what happened to people after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only plantation in louisiana exclusively dedicated to telling the story of an slaved people. This land we are on now was historically known as habitation hideout, and our owner, John Cummings, purchased the property 15 years ago and has been and theg the structure church. We had to build some things here , restore e
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goodbye. i d like to squeeze in one question with chris. if i may, very briefly, if we can, chris really press the time now. an unprecedented number of sanctions were imposed on russia this year, as we know many of them limiting wisdom or restricting access to various services, payment methods. we know even crypto currencies. you think we d like to see the developments of any alternative financial technologies in the coming year? good vicki. absolutely. i think we re already seeing that there was announcement recently, for example, the v t v bank, one of russia largest banks, has company developed a new payment gateway that goes between russia and iran and allow people to lose money more or less instantly between the 2 countries. so that s where we re moving . the dominance of the financial system, which is a moment, is controlled by a private company called swift, which is basically how most move our money to and fro around the world. now that s gone, now we re seeing that s