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GEORGE MOSES HORTON

Slave poet. His The Hope of Liberty (1829) was first book by a black author in South. Lived on farm 2 mi. SE.

H-108Chatham County

Where it stands. US 15/501 at SR 1700 (Mount Gilead Church Road) north of Pittsboro

African American historyWork and industryWriters, artists and musicians
I know her story-telling eye Has more expression than her tongue; And from that heart-extorted sigh, At once the peal of love is rung.
George Moses HortonThe Poetical Works of George M. Horton: The Colored Bard of North Carolina: To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself, 1845The subject of this marker, in their own words. Carolina Quotes record

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