Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
by Tate, Don
Ezra Jack Keats Award/HonorsALA Notable/Best BooksChristopher AwardCarter G. Woodson Award/HonorWriterU.S.Black PeoplePoetry/Rhymes
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AR Book Level
4.5
AR Points
0.5
Word Count
1,414
Interest Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
175345 EN
About this book
In the 19th century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read, earned money to purchase his time, though not his freedom, and became the first African American to be published in the South, protesting slavery in the form of verse.