Poet
Subtitle: the remarkable story of George Moses Horton
By: Don Tate
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781561458257
Subjects: Juvenile literature; African Americans; African American poets
Description: In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time, although 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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