| Subject: A Knight in Camelot: Historical Precedent |
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Date Posted: 09:11:17 09/27/04 Mon
When Clarence (Fenton), in the film, ran his finger along Morgan's (Goldberg's) face to see if he could rub her blackness off, that acene had a historical precedent.
On the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Rogers Clark had a black slave named Pompey, who was reportedly, the biggest man on the expedition. The Native Americans, the Expedition encountered, never having seen a black man before, would run their fingers along his body, to see if they could rub his blackness off.
Clark would later free Pompey, and while it would be nice, if Pompey had a happy life as a free man, he would not. As Pompey was illiterate, it being a crime to teach a black man to read and write in those times, he was constantly cheated by those whites who could read and write.
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