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To: epicure who wrote (227865)	7/16/2013 9:43:05 PM
From: Metacomet	Respond to of 545221

Robinson stated the case as clearly as it could be stated.. Message 29007720 As long as folks who really should understand what is happening, keep searching for other than Occams Razor, the bigotry, and its artifacts, will survive...

To: epicure who wrote (227865)	7/17/2013 12:57:10 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 545221

I just saw Ken Burns' Lewis and Clark on Ch. 9 (Bay Area PBS for you easterners), and rediscovered that, in some areas, not a whole lot has changed in 200 years. It's a remarkable tale, much more difficult than the 5 minutes we got in school. I never realized how close they came to starvation. pbs.org But, I digress. One explorer was York, Clark's slave; who was perhaps the first "uppity Black Man" on record, for daring to ask for his freedom as his payment for the expedition. = Because he spent most of his life as an enslaved man, York was never permitted to tell his own story. Taken together, however, the Expedition journals, William Clark’s letters, and other accounts provide a sketch of the man and his importance to the Corps. As the property of William Clark, the choice of joining the Corps was not York's to make. His feelings about leaving his wife behind to begin a journey across a continent were never recorded. His contributions, however, were considerable... At the Expedition's end, while York returned to a life of slavery, other members of the Corps received double pay and 320 acres of land. For many years, Clark denied York his much wanted freedom. In a letter written in December 1808, Clark detailed his thoughts on the matter: “I did wish to do well by him. but as he has got Such a notion about freedom and his emence Services … I do not think with him, that his Services has been So great/or my Situation would promit me to liberate him.” Information on York’s last years comes from author Washington Irving, who in 1832 visited William Clark. Clark claimed that he had freed York. Although the exact year is unknown, it is unlikely to have been before 1815. Along with his freedom, York received a wagon and team of horses. With these, he started a business hauling goods. According to Clark, the business failed and York, “determined to go back to his old master,” began making his way to St. Louis. While traveling, York contracted cholera and died in Tennessee. nps.gov