| | 56 | Author: | Horton
George Moses
1798?-ca. 1880 | Add | | | Title: | Poems by a Slave  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | Chadwyck-Healey, Database of African-American poetry, 1760-1900 | CH-DatabaseAfrAmPoetry | | | | Description: | Dear Sir:—I have inquired of Mr. Gales, agreeably to your
request, to ascertain the present condition of George M. Horton.
He informs me that he is still the slave of James Horton of
Chatham County, and is employed as a servant at Chapel Hill,
the seat of the University of North Carolina. It is understood
by Mr. G. that he did not derive much pecuniary profit from the
publication of his poems; and that, since the death of his patron,
the late Dr. Caldwell, President of the University, he has
attended to other occupations. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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