Peter Jacob Carter is remembered as an excellent public speaker, who campaigned for Republican candidates throughout eastern Virginia during the 1870s and later in the 1880s after the Readjuster Party ceased to exist. Carter was born into slavery in Eastville, Northampton County on May 29, 1845. He joined Company B of the 10th United States […]
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