{"id":63030,"date":"2022-02-13T02:46:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T02:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63030"},"modified":"2022-02-13T21:42:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T21:42:30","slug":"abraham-galloway-is-the-black-figure-from-the-civil-war-you-should-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63030","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/08\/1077673414\/abraham-galloway-civil-war-black-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/all-things-considered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Things Considered<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2022-02-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/elizblair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elizabeth Blair<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Producer\/Reporter, Arts Desk<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/1077673414\/1079300279\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/08\/1077673414\/abraham-galloway-civil-war-black-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98%; border: 0px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2022\/02\/08\/abraham-galloway_wide-f30bd87ebcc05355c4ef6248a683be581e16103e-s1800-c85.webp\"><\/a><figcaption style=\"width: 98%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-size: x-small;\">Engraved portrait of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_Galloway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abraham Galloway<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Still\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Still&#8217;s<\/a> <em>The Underground Railroad<\/em>, published in 1872.<br \/>\n<em>William Still&#8217;s &#8216;The Underground Railroad,&#8217; 1872<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He has been compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Bond_(literary_character)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Bond<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malcolm_X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malcolm X<\/a>, though his name has largely been left out of the history books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_Galloway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abraham Galloway<\/a> was an African American who escaped enslavement in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina<\/a>, became a Union spy during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil War<\/a> and recruited Black soldiers to fight with the North. That&#8217;s the short version. The fuller picture would include his work as a revolutionary and being one of the first African Americans elected to the North Carolina Senate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidcecelski.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Cecelski<\/a>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves&#8217; Civil War<\/em><\/a>, calls him a &#8220;swashbuckling figure who wouldn&#8217;t take sass from Northern or Southern or Black or white, Union or Confederate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Cecelski was doing research for another book about maritime slavery, he kept coming across Galloway&#8217;s name. &#8220;And the stories were sort of so different than what I had been taught about slavery or the Civil War, or the role of African Americans in the Civil War,&#8221; he says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ql8eG8xM78c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read or listen to the story (00:05:07) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/08\/1077673414\/abraham-galloway-civil-war-black-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about All Things Considered National Public Radio 2022-02-08 Elizabeth Blair, Senior Producer\/Reporter, Arts Desk Engraved portrait of Abraham Galloway from William Still&#8217;s The Underground Railroad, published in 1872. William Still&#8217;s &#8216;The Underground Railroad,&#8217; 1872 He has been compared to James Bond and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,1245,459,8,6940,20,842],"tags":[30757,32984,13319,2342,29448,32986,32987,2309,879,2833,20474],"class_list":["post-63030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-videos","tag-abraham-galloway","tag-abraham-h-galloway","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-all-things-considered","tag-david-cecelski","tag-elizabeth-blair","tag-mike-wiley","tag-national-public-radio","tag-north-carolina","tag-npr","tag-william-still"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63030","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=63030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63059,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63030\/revisions\/63059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}