Poet

By Don Tate

Subjects: Juvenile literature, North carolina, juvenile literature, award:Ezra_Jack_Keats_award, African americans, biography, African Americans, African americans, biography, juvenile literature, lexile:730, African American poets, age:max:9, Juvenile, grade:max:4, grade:min:1, lexile_range:701-800, age:min:6

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