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

Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1997] ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations Series Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law UNC Press law publications Spinelli's law library reference shelf 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 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 Notes "Chapel Hill books." Bibliography "Works by George Moses Horton": pages 47-48 Includes bibliographical references pages (48-52) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed June 29, 2021) SUBJECT Horton, George Moses. swd Subject African Americans -- North Carolina -- Poetry Slavery -- North Carolina -- Poetry Enslaved persons -- North Carolina -- Poetry LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. African Americans Slavery Enslaved persons North Carolina Genre/Form poetry. Poetry Biografieën (vorm) Gedichten (teksten) Poetry. Poésie. Form Electronic book Author Sherman, Joan R., editor. ISBN 0807864463 9780807864463

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