Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
by Don Tate, Illustrated by Don Tate
- A Top 150 Children’s Book
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Carter G. Woodson Award Winning Book 2016
- Ezra Jack Keats Award Winning, or Honored, Book
Peachtree Publishers (Sep 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 36 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Description of Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate
In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his timethough 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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- ISBN: 9781561458257
- Imprint: Peachtree Publishers
- Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
- Parent Company: Peachtree Publishers
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