Black Bard of North Carolina

by George Moses Horton

Book Overview

For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature, and the art of poetry, George Moses Horton merits a place of distinction among nineteenth-century African American poets. Enslaved from birth until the close of the Civil War, the self-taught Horton was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse and the first black man to publish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807846481
• ISBN13: 9780807846483
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 9.3"