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Just Rewards ... he has got such a notion about freedom and his emence Services, that I do not expect he will be of much service to me again...I gave him a severe trouncing the other Day and he has much mended sence. - William Clark in a letter to Jonathan Clark, December 10, 1808 I rowed an walked as much an carried more than any man on the expedition. When we returned Massa Clark got acres a land, lots a pay an grand balls in his honor. I got a short week in Kentucke to say good bye to my wife before returning to his new home in Saint Louie. Unable to fill all my emptiness with whiskey I earned many lashes at his hands for being what he calls "insolent an sulky" or what I calls speaking up for my freedom. ...

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