Nancy

"Paul wrote his letter in 1778, when Meriwether was three or four. That meant he grew up alongside the people it named, including Nancy, Easter, and Dan, who were children as well. Once he became an adult, though, Lewis distanced himself from slavery. His family still bought and sold human beings. Lewis did not. When he became Jefferson’s secretary, the president offered him an enslaved body servant, but Lewis declined, opting for a free and part-time attendant instead. Lewis was not a reformer—while reporting on Native removal, he relayed Louisiana’s pro-slavery enthusiasm to Jefferson without judgment. Still, the pattern was clear. One time, during a period of prolonged hut building, Lewis issued a rare complaint about army life, writing that he felt like “more of a confined overseer than at [Locust Hill].” It was not clear what bothered him more: being confined or being a part of the system of slavery."

"islands of stability in a sea of change. Nancy: “There's this Product Integration Group—Pigs. They're completely un- managed. They provide tools to enhance all the other prod- ucts and help to integrate them. The requirements come from the product groups, who say, ‘We need something that would do this. Do the architecture.’ They’re all individualists, very quirky, talented but quirky. So it’s a growth path for those technicians who are ambitious but don’t want to manage.”"

"Of course there are those on both the administrative and techni- cal sides who remain unwilling to accept the challenge of man- agement responsibility. Not only are they not stigmatized at CA, but in a company where upward (or inward, toward-the-center) mobility is the norm, such people are treasured. They are the islands of stability in a sea of change. Nancy: “There's this"