Author: JOAN R. SHERMAN
Title: The Back Bard of North Caolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry
Description: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. Soft Cover. PB/ pub. 1997/ VG condition/ 157 pages The self-taught Horton was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse and the first black man to publish a book in the South. As a man an d as a poet, his achievements were extraordinar y. (A8451). Good.

Keywords: poems, anti-slavery, negro, afro-american, history, poetry black history


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