Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

by David Zucchino

AT AGE THIRTY-THREE, Abraham Galloway was gone. He died in Wilmington on September 1, 1870, early in his second term as state senator. Newspapers speculated that the cause of death was fever and jaundice or perhaps rheumatism or a heart ailment.