George Moses Horton (1978-1883) was the first African American man to publish a book in the South—and one of the first to publicly protest his slavery in poetry (Poetry Foundation). This research guide will connect you to the works of Horton, and to many types of secondary sources on this important American writer of the 19th century
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The Poetical Works of George M. Horton (Includes Horton's autobiography)
Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley : also, Poems by a slave
Naked Genius
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Literature Databases
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A Presentation by Cecil Brown on the George Moses Horton Project
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