On Shelves Now: POET: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF GEORGE MOSES HORTON by Don Tate

36 p.
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Ages: 6 to 10

The inspiring story of George Horton, slave and poet, the first southern African-American to be published.

In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time—though not his freedom. Horton became the first African American to be published in the South, protesting slavery in the form of verse.