He was born 1834 the son of a plantation owner in North Carolina and one of his slaves.[4] He was emancipated in his father's will.[1] He left Mobile for Brooklyn, New York in the 1850s.[3] He campaigned in New York for voting rights for African Americans.[5]
He represented Mobile at the state's 1867 Constitutional Convention, served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1868 to 1870, and served on the Mobile City Council in 1869 and 1870. At the convention he spoke in opposition to segregation and opposed a ban on marriages between blacks and whites.[5] He also proposed life imprisonment for any white men cohabiting with black women.[6]
He was a rival of Lawrence S. Berry. Jeremiah Haralson accused him of taking a bribe from railroad interests.[7]
^ abcd"Gulf South Historical Review" (PDF). Tuskegee University Archives. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
^Work, Monroe N.; Staples, Thomas S.; Wallace, H. A.; Miller, Kelly; McKinlay, Whitefield; Lacy, Samuel E.; Smith, R. L.; McIlwaine, H. R. (1920). "Some Negro Members of Reconstruction Conventions and Legislatures and of Congress". The Journal of Negro History. 5 (1): 63–119. doi:10.2307/2713503. JSTOR 2713503. S2CID 149610698. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
^ abcFitzgerald, Michael W. (September 1, 2002). Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860–1890. LSU Press. ISBN9780807128374 – via Google Books.
^"Song is part of soldier's legacy (John Carraway)". The Montgomery Advertiser. 26 May 1997. p. 1. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
^ abcFreedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner, Louisiana State University Press (1996) page 41
^Brock, Euline Williams. "BLACK POLITICAL LEADERSHIP DURING RECONSTRUCTION" (PDF). Retrieved 10 July 2021.
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