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  2. Apr 4, 2024 · Born of free parents, young Revels traveled to Indiana and Illinois to receive the education that was denied him in the South. He was ordained a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1845 and eventually settled in Baltimore , Maryland, where he served as a church pastor and principal of a school for African Americans.

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  3. Early life and education. Revels was born free in 1827 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to free people of color, with ancestors who had been free since before the American Revolution. [1] His parents were of African American, European, and Native American ancestry. [2]

  4. Nov 14, 2020 · Early Years and Family Life. Unlike many Black people in the South at the time, Revels was not enslaved from birth but was born to free parents of Black, White, and possibly Native American heritage on Sept. 27, 1827, in Fayetteville, N.C. His older brother Elias Revels owned a barbershop, which Hiram inherited upon his sibling’s death.

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  5. Mar 6, 2023 · Hiram Rhodes Revels was born to free parents in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on September 27, 1827. His father worked as a Baptist preacher, and his mother was of Scottish descent.

  6. Hiram Rhodes Revels was born to free parents in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on September 27, 1827. His father worked as a Baptist preacher, and his mother was of Scottish descent. His ancestors were born free and of Scottish, African, and Croatan Indian lineage.

  7. May 14, 2018 · Hiram Rhoades Revels (1822-1901), African American clergyman and university administrator, was the first black American to sit in the U.S. Senate. Hiram Revels was born of free parents on Sept. 27, 1822, in Fayetteville, N.C.

  8. Feb 18, 2020 · Hiram Rhodes Revels was born in September 1827 of free parents in Fayetteville, North Carolina and was of mixed African and Croatan Indian descent. His journey to Washington, D.C., in some respects, is a familiar one. He worked an array of jobs, finding a calling as a minister and educator, and served as a chaplain during the Civil War.

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