The Sergeant Book Talk
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Join the Detroit Historical Society for a book talk and signing with Dean Calbreath, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and author of The Sergeant.
"The Sergeant” is a biography of Nicholas Said, a Union Army sergeant who was born in Africa and traveled through much of the Middle East and Europe before winding up in Detroit on the eve of the Civil War, where he taught French at a private "colored school." After unsuccessfully trying to join the Union Army there (which at the time had a whites-only policy), he eventually traveled to Massachusetts to join the 55th Massachusetts Infantry (African Descent) to fight in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.
Learn more about the book here.
This event is free with museum admission.