Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
by Don Tate, Illustrated by Don Tate
- A Top 150 Children’s Book
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Publication Date: Sep 01, 2015
List Price: $17.99
Format: Hardcover, 36 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9781561458257
Imprint: Peachtree Publishers
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Parent Company: Peachtree Publishers
Hardcover Description:
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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