Poet
by Don Tate
Juvenile literatureAfrican AmericansAfrican American poetsAfrican americans, biographyAfrican americans, biography, juvenile literature
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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, 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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Juvenile literatureAfrican AmericansAfrican American poetsAfrican americans, biographyAfrican americans, biography, juvenile literatureNorth carolina, juvenile literature
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North Carolina
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