Outlasting Slavery: How George Freeman Bragg Jr. became a force for racial justice, by Gift Luckson George Freeman Bragg Jr. (1863–1940) was a pioneering African American priest, journalist, and social activist who became a central figure in the Episcopal Church and the fight for civil rights in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ​Born into slavery in Warrenton, North Carolina, Bragg rose to become a formidable voice for racial equality and a leading historian of the Black presence within the Episcopal Church. Early Life and Journalism Bragg grew up in Petersburg, Virginia,...