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George Moses Horton, Dennis Heartt
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
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Don Tate
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…
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George Moses Horton
Blown up with painful care, and hard to light, A glimmering torch, blown in a moment out; Suspended by a webb, an angler’s bait, Floating at stake along the stream…
Large Print Edition From the importunate request of a few individuals, I assume the difficult task of writing a concise history of my life. But to open a scene of…
Enslaved from birth until the end of the Civil War, the self-taught George Moses Horton was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse and the first…
LARGE PRINT EDITION: GEORGE, who is the author of the following poetical effusions, is a Slave, the property of Mr. James Horton, of Chatham County, North Carolina. He has been…
Dennis 1783-1870 Heartt
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
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A new Penguin Classics series that recovers and rediscovers the work of African American poets from the 19th and 20th centuries, curated by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy
A Penguin…
