{"id":59518,"date":"2020-02-12T01:08:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59518"},"modified":"2020-02-12T01:09:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:09:27","slug":"this-nc-man-was-one-of-the-most-important-civil-war-leaders-but-he-was-erased-from-history-for-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59518","title":{"rendered":"This NC man was one of the most important Civil War leaders, but he was erased from history for 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/5907992\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>This NC man was one of the most important Civil War leaders, but he was erased from history for 100 years<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC11 (WTVD-TV)<\/a><br \/>\nRaleigh\/Durham, North Carolina<br \/>\n2020-02-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cameron-clinard-94281975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cameron Clinard<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Digital Producer<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=5918042\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Meet the most important Civil War leader you&#8217;ve never heard of<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilmington,_North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WILMINGTON, N.C.<\/a> (WTVD) &#8212; One of the most important African American leaders of the late 1800s was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina<\/a>, but his accomplishments and influence vanished from history for 100 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_Galloway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abraham Galloway<\/a> was a spy, an insurgent, a statesman, a fierce advocate of the working class and a warrior against oppression and tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he did speaking tours in the North, he didn&#8217;t introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Douglass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frederick Douglass<\/a> as the main speaker of the night. Frederick Douglass introduced him as the main speaker of the night,&#8221; historian <a href=\"https:\/\/davidcecelski.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. David Cecelski<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Yet today, Frederick Douglass is a household name and central figure of study in American history, while Abraham Galloway is hardly known.<\/p>\n<p>When Galloway died in 1870, approximately 6,000 people attended his funeral. Newspapers at the time reported that it was the largest funeral in North Carolina history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody knew who Abraham Galloway was at that point,&#8221; Cecelski said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story <a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/5907992\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the most important Civil War leader you&#8217;ve never heard of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,20,842],"tags":[30754,30757,30755,30756,29448,879,30753],"class_list":["post-59518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-abc11","tag-abraham-galloway","tag-cameron-clinard","tag-cameron-k-clinard","tag-david-cecelski","tag-north-carolina","tag-wtvd-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59520,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518\/revisions\/59520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}