History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2292 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hiram Revels
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The idea
Hiram Revels was born free in North Carolina, rose as an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and became a Mississippi state senator in eighteen sixty-nine.
In practice
The legislature electing him the following year to a vacant United States Senate seat.
Where people slip
He took the seat in Jefferson Davis's home state. The New York Times reported that a pin might have been heard drop.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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