Peter Barnabas Barrow
American politician (c.1840–1906) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Barnabas Barrow (died 1906) was a slave, soldier, state legislator, and minister in the United States. He served in the Mississippi Senate,[1] and Mississippi House of Representatives 1870-1871.[2] A photo of him is part of the Mississippi State University Libraries collection.[3] Later in life he established a Baptist church, Calvary Baptist Church, in Spokane, Washington, and served as its pastor.[4][5] He owned an apple orchard.[6]
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Barrow was believed to have been born into slavery in 1840 near Petersburg, Virginia, and to have grown up on a plantation near Cosita, Alabama. He was freed by the Union Army in 1864. In 1906 he was killed by a streetcar in Tacoma, Washington.[7]