Tate, Don

Poet : the remarkable story of George Moses Horton / Remarkable story of George Moses Horton : poet George Moses Horton, Poet Don Tate. - First edition - Atlanta, Georgia Peachtree 2015 - 38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

"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"--Publisher.

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Horton, George Moses, 1798?-approximately 1880
Horton, George Moses, 1798?-approximately 1880.


African Americans
African American poets--North Carolina


North Carolina.



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