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Tate, Don.
POET : THE REMARKABLE STORY OF GEORGE MOSES HORTON
Atlanta: Peachtree, 2015
IL 3-6, RL 4.2
ISBN 1561458252

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When he was a young slave, George Moses Horton taught himself to read and then turned his mind to poetry.  Despite being enslaved, he finds time to learn to write and eventually publishes his own books.  (Oklahoma Children’s Sequoyah 2018)

SUBJECTS:     African Americans -- Biography.
                        Freedmen -- Biography.
                        Horton, George Moses, 1798?-approximately 1880.
                        Poets.
                        Slaves -- North Carolina -- Biography.

 
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