George Moses Horton--Acrostics

George Moses Horton--Acrostics

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

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. Handwritten text by George Moses Horton on lined sheet of paper.

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

J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/55152
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1EnJN5-8KnokCQjsoOA1kYu8TrvVauT31

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1854

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

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ASERL Slavery Exhibit-1; ASERL Slavery Exhibit-2

1854, Antebellum