Came across this historical story recently, thought I would share.
Its a story about Clarks black manservant named York who was brought on the Lewis and Clark expidition and the sexual relations the members had with native women.
"Indian admiration for this strange black visitor was genuine. In discussing sexual encounters with Indian women, Lewis recorded that "the black man, York participated largely in these favours, for instead of inspiring any prejudice, his color and exeptional masculine traits seemed to procure him additional advantages from the Indians, who desired to preserve among them some memorial of this wonderful stranger." (children) Indian men sought after York to share their wives with him and native women especially vied for his attentions. The white members of the expidition would "barter for native women as bed companions for a night or longer" while York was presented with the women as gifts. Lewis reported how one Ricara Indian invited York to his house, presented the Negro to his wife and then retired outside by the door allowing his wife to bask in the pleasures he could give her. Reportedly, York sired a number of mixed-blood offspring throughout the three-year expidition.
Sourse: Merriwether Lewis, History of the Expidition of Captains Lewis and Clark (Chicago: A.C. McClug and Company, 1924),I, 180
Its a story about Clarks black manservant named York who was brought on the Lewis and Clark expidition and the sexual relations the members had with native women.
"Indian admiration for this strange black visitor was genuine. In discussing sexual encounters with Indian women, Lewis recorded that "the black man, York participated largely in these favours, for instead of inspiring any prejudice, his color and exeptional masculine traits seemed to procure him additional advantages from the Indians, who desired to preserve among them some memorial of this wonderful stranger." (children) Indian men sought after York to share their wives with him and native women especially vied for his attentions. The white members of the expidition would "barter for native women as bed companions for a night or longer" while York was presented with the women as gifts. Lewis reported how one Ricara Indian invited York to his house, presented the Negro to his wife and then retired outside by the door allowing his wife to bask in the pleasures he could give her. Reportedly, York sired a number of mixed-blood offspring throughout the three-year expidition.
Sourse: Merriwether Lewis, History of the Expidition of Captains Lewis and Clark (Chicago: A.C. McClug and Company, 1924),I, 180