The Black bard of North Carolina : George Moses Horton and his poetry / edited by Joan R. Sherman.

By:

Horton, George Moses, 1798?-approximately 1880

Contributor(s):

Sherman, Joan R

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Chapel Hill BooksPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0807864463
9780807864463

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black bard of North Carolina.DDC classification:

811/.4 21

LOC classification:

PS1999.H473 A6 1997eb

Other classification:

18.06
HT 7000

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Contents:

Cover Page; The Black Bard of North Carolina; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction; Bibliography; Uncollected Poems; POEMS FROM The Hope of Liberty; POEMS FROM The Poetical Works; POEMS FROM Naked Genius; INDEX OF TITLES.

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Summary: For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, his folk verse, 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 for sixty-eight years - from his birth until the close of the Civil War - he was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse, the first black man to publish. A book in the South, and the only slave to earn a significant income through the sale of his poems. As a man and as a poet, Horton's achievements were extraordinary. In this volume, Joan Sherman collects sixty-two of Horton's poems. Her comprehensive introduction - which combines biography, history, cultural commentary, and critical insight - presents a compelling and detailed picture of this remarkable man's life and art. Covering a wide range of poetical subjects in. Varied verse forms, this collection is an eloquent testament to Horton's unique voice.

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"Works by George Moses Horton": pages 47-48.

Includes bibliographical references pages (48-52) and index.

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For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, his folk verse, 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 for sixty-eight years - from his birth until the close of the Civil War - he was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse, the first black man to publish. A book in the South, and the only slave to earn a significant income through the sale of his poems. As a man and as a poet, Horton's achievements were extraordinary. In this volume, Joan Sherman collects sixty-two of Horton's poems. Her comprehensive introduction - which combines biography, history, cultural commentary, and critical insight - presents a compelling and detailed picture of this remarkable man's life and art. Covering a wide range of poetical subjects in. Varied verse forms, this collection is an eloquent testament to Horton's unique voice.

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