"PBS News Hour" aired an on-set look at PBS’ new Civil War drama series "Mercy Street" which premieres tonight. There’s a segment in the report that focuses on McKinley Belcher III’s character, Sam Diggs – a free black laborer who harbors a secret knowledge of and ability in medicine, which he learned as a young servant in an enlightened northern doctor’s household. Sam is qualified to do much more than anyone would allow at this point. A black man with education and talent, he is caught between two worlds and two modes of thinking about the future.
In the PBS on-set report, the character is described as having one of the more "complex and…
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