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Peter Barnabas Barrow

1840–1906

United States

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Peter Barnabas Barrow (died 1906) was a slave, soldier, state legislator, and minister in the United States. He served in the Mississippi Senate, and Mississippi House of Representatives 1870-1871. A photo of him is part of the Mississippi State University Libraries collection.

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