Star-Spangled & Strapped

Medium:

Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas

Price:

NFS

| on loan from

Camp Schreiber Foundation

Dimensions:

60

x

48

Year

2021

Abraham Galloway
Abraham Galloway

Abraham Galloway

1837
1870

Abolitionist | Union Spy | State Senator

Abraham Galloway escaped enslavement in Wilmington in 1857 in the cargo hold of a boat headed to Philadelphia and eventually reached Canada, where he began working in the abolitionist movement and shortly after as a Union spy. Galloway was back in North Carolina in 1863 during the Civil War to recruit Black men for the Union cause. 

After he stopped recruiting for the Union, Galloway began fighting for voting rights and political equality. That included leading a delegation to the White House in 1864. Four years later, Galloway was nominated to run for the N.C. Senate in the first election that Black Americans were eligible to hold a state office. He died at 33 years old, just six months after the birth of his second son, Abraham Jr.

Of note: In 1861, Galloway spent roughly 15 weeks in Haiti to work on the recruitment efforts for a John Brown-type military invasion in the American South.



CONTINUATIONS:

  • "The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War" by David S. Cecelski
  • North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
  • The Christian Recorder
  • NC Pedia

VIDEO

Interview with

Timothy Pinnick

Genealogist; author of “Finding and Using African American Newspapers”

Genealogist and author Timothy Pinnick discusses the legacy of Abraham Galloway, who escaped enslavement in Wilmington and was a Union spy and North Carolina state Senator. The Galloway portrait was painted by artist Sloane Siobhan. Video by William Paul Thomas.

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VIDEO

Interview with

Timothy Pinnick

Genealogist; author of “Finding and Using African American Newspapers”

Genealogist and author Timothy Pinnick discusses the legacy of Abraham Galloway, who escaped enslavement in Wilmington and was a Union spy and North Carolina state Senator. The Galloway portrait was painted by artist Sloane Siobhan. Video by William Paul Thomas.