September 9, 2005
Unraveling the Narrative
A scholar raises questions, and hackles, with evidence that the ex-slave who wrote the definitive first-person account of the Middle Passage may not have made that infamous journey
What if you were told that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark never made it past St. Louis in 1803? And that Lewis's famous diary of the Louisiana Purchase expedition was an embroidery of reports from trappers and American Indians?
Imagine that, and you begin to understand why some people are upset
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