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Abraham Galloway
1837–1870
United States
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Abraham Harris Galloway (February 8, 1837 – September 1, 1870) was an American abolitionist and politician. A former slave, he served as a Union Army spy and early black political organizer in eastern North Carolina during the American Civil War. After the war, helped to organize the Republican Party in the state and served in the North Carolina Senate from 1868 to 1870.
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