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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That Lewis and Clark weren't marching around as a pair...they had an army with them. Who knew![/quote]

I didn't.  Are you sure?  I've always thought of them like the Lone Ranger and Tonto.[/quote]

DP. History teacher.

They led a small expeditionary force. So neither a duo or an army.[/quote]

And York, an enslaved black man, who was never freed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/01/12/york-slave-lewis-clark-expedition/[/quote]

I watched Ken Burns account of Lewis and Clark on PBS years ago.  Loved it, until the end when they read Clark's writings on York.  You can't give a human being that much freedom and think he's going to go back to being your slave easily.  I cried listening to his words of how he tired to beat York back into submission, loaning him off to other plantation owners for money and so they would break him, but never giving him his freedom when he asked or bartered for it to work on the farm where his wife was enslaved.  I should have seen this coming.  [/quote]

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We really have no hero left in US history.[/quote]

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