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Poet : the remarkable story of George Moses Horton
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Poet : the remarkable story of George Moses Horton
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In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time though not his freedom. Horton became the first African American to be published in the South, protesting slavery in the form of verse.
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Title
Poet : the remarkable story of George Moses Horton
Call No
92 HOR
Authors
Tate, Don
Subjects
Horton, George Moses, 1798?-approximately 1880--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Biography.
African American poets--North Carolina--Biography.
North Carolina--Biography.
Language
English
Published
Atlanta : Peachtree Publishers, 2015.
Publication Desc
1 volume (unpaged : color illustrations ;
ISBN
9781561458257
Dimensions
29 cm.