George Moses Horton--Acrostics

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Title

George Moses Horton--Acrostics

Subject

African-American poets; American poetry--African-American men; Slavery--United States

Description

Acrostic poems to Mary McClean and Sophia Alexander (ca. 1854) by George Moses Horton, slave-poet of Chatham County, N.C. These were commissioned by Torrance while a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Creator

George Moses Horton

Source

Torrance and Banks family papers, J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Publisher

unknown

Date

2019

Contributor

J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Rights

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Format

TIFF

Language

Eng

Type

Still image

Coverage

Antebellum, 1854