Every American school child learns about the Lewis and Clark expedition. By which I mean, we all learn that Lewis and Clark traveled to the west coast. That's it. Maybe we learn that they took "men" and Sacajawea. We certainly don't learn about York. Our history books hardly mention slaves except in context of the Civil War. So this book gives us essentially an outsider perspective. We see how York was used by Lewis and Clark in negotiations, how he was mistreated by other members of the expedition. It's a slightly darker, far more accurate, version of exploration than we are usually given. Definitely a good choice to supplement what kids are learning in school.
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