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Before Hiram Revels became the first African-American member of the U.S. Senate, he secretly goes away to learn to read and write. In 1822, Revels is born a free man to an African father and Scottish mother. Revels grew up during a time when the laws of North Carolina prohibited education for young African Americans. Though the laws were meant specifically for slaves, they sometimes applied to free men as well. After secretly receiving several years of education from a woman in the community, Revels moved to Lincolnton, North Carolina. In Lincolnton, he worked as a barber for a short period of time. When Revels was twenty-two, he went to Indiana to pursue an education free from the limitations of pre-Civil War South. After years of religious and liberal arts training, Revels returned to the South where he became an ordained minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. By 1849, Revels was a well respected minister and traveled throughout the country where he had delivered many sermons. He also presided over religious services and ceremonies in both free and slave states.