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Early Years and Ministry Davis was born about November 1839 into slavery in Christiansville (later Chase City), in Mecklenburg County. He was the son of Cephas Davis and Annie (sometimes noted as Frances) Davis. Most likely he gained his freedom at the end of the Civil War. His contemporaries’ comments and recollections suggest that Davis may have attended Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (later Hampton University) or the Richmond Theological School for Freedmen (later Virginia Union University), but his name does not appear in the records of either school. In 1869 and 1870 he taug...

Though he started life as a slave, Frederick Douglass became an abolitionist, orator, writer, statesman and ambassador. He liberated himself in 1838 and in 1845 published his first autobiography, " Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," (The Anti-Slavery Office, 1845). The book, alongside his work for the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad, helped him become one of the most famous African American men of his era. Born into slavery Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born around February 1818, although no records exist of the exact date) in Talbot...

© Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The Census Bureau recently announced the results of the 2020 Census, which determines the apportionment of U.S. House seats among the states for the next 10 years. The most startling outcome was the shockingly small margin between New York and Minnesota in the race for the 435th and final House seat. Minnesota won the seat, but a difference of just 26 fewer Minnesotans or 89 more New Yorkers would have flipped it to New York. It’s unprecedented for a congressional seat to swing on such a narrow margin, and New York is no doubt considering its options in litig...

ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGE BATES In October 1829, some of the last surviving leaders of America’s founding generation gathered in Richmond, Virginia, for a state constitutional convention. Two issues dominated the gathering: suffrage and apportionment. Virginia’s 1776 constitution, drafted in the crucible of revolution, had limited the vote to white men who owned a certain amount of property. It also drew the General Assembly’s electoral districts to heavily favor the plantation-dominated Tidewater region in eastern Virginia, at the expense of the now-burgeoning western counties. Presiding ...

Cancel culture. Cancel culture. The right wing trumpets it so many times it rings in my ears. Freedom of speech, the right's mouth pieces claim, is "silenced" by the liberals and socialists who, conservatives say, control the nation's media and universities, canceling out all but their own speech. But it is not those on the left that threaten free speech in any systematic way. It is those on the right that have a long and continuing history of silencing those who espouse even moderately progressive ideas and programs. Worse, even as the right claims to hold the Constitution and its First Ame...