In April 1909, American explorer Robert Peary was written into history as the person person who 'discovered' the North Pole.But an overlooked detail of that story is that Peary was accompanied by a black sharecropper from , Mathew Henson, who says it was he who had the gut feeling they had arrived at the right spot.Henson and Peary partnered in 1891, and over the course of two decades embarked on seven arctic expeditions together in the hopes of planting the American flag on the North Pole and claiming credit for its discovery.
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