Ahati Toure
Ahati Nerasa Neru Toure is Yoruba and traces his ancestry to Ile Ife, the holy city of the Yoruba people, located in what is now Nigeria, West Africa. He was born and raised in New York City and upstate New York. Both his father’s and his mother’s grandfathers were enslaved in the southern United States. He is a doctoral student in history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interest is the African experience in the United States, especially as it relates to 19th-century and 20th-century Pan African nationalist thought and movements.
Contribution
Two years after the conclusion of the historic Lewis and Clark expedition, York and his enslaver, the Virginia-born patrician William Clark, were at odds.
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- The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
- The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
- The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.
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Unless otherwise noted, journal excerpts are from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton, 13 vols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983-2001).