Talk:Nicholas Said

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https://web.archive.org/web/20120324055345/http://www.talkingaboutislam.com/articles/history/History_1800.htm

I'm not sure of the reliability of this source, which is used on the Islam in the United States article in a mention of Nicholas Said. It offers a lot of information not present in the article with its current sources. The following paragraph is written about Said:

"In 1860, Muhammad Ali ibn Said (1833 - 1882), known as (Nicholas Said) arrived in America as a free man. Muhammad was born in the Kingdom of Bornoo, West Africa near Lake Chad to a well-educated merchant family. Said was kidnaped and enslaved when he was 16. His first slave master was an Arab named Abdel Kader who took him to Tripoli and Fezzan. Muhammad was then sold to Alexander Menshikov, an aide to the Russian Czar, then to Nicholas Trubetzkoy with whom he traveled to many places during his years of slavery from Russia, Rome, Persia to France. In 1860 he left Liverpool, England with a man from Holland to travel to Boston, New York, Kingston, New Providence, Toronto, Quebec, and other places in North America as a freed man. In 1861 he arrived in Detroit. Shortly afterward he found a teaching job and in 1863 Muhammad enlisted in the 55th Massachusetts colored regiment and became a Civil War hero. He served faithfully and bravely with his regiment as Corporal and then Sergeant in the South. Near the close of the war he was assigned, at his own request, to the hospital department, to learn some knowledge of medicine. His Army records show that he died in Brownsville, Tennessee in 1882."

I am just noting this here if anybody is interested in expanding this article. Again, I'm not sure of its reliability. —  Melofors   TC  21:22, 21 August 2021 (UTC)