Detroit’s dark secret: Slavery

“Detroit’s dark secret: Slavery” — Michigan Today featured an overview of Tiya’s effort to shed some light on Detroit’s dark secret in her book, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits.” Refuting some long-held stereotypes about the early American North and South, Tiya paints a picture of Detroit from about 1760 to 1815, when Native Americans and African Americans were considered property.” February 2018.