Poems by a Slave

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Authors: George Moses Horton In Year : 1837

Book Language: English

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Explanation and Preface to the Second Edition
Praise of Creation
On the Silence of a Young Lady
The Lover's Farewell
On Liberty and Slavery
To Eliza
Love
On the Death of an Infant
The Slave's Complaint
On the Truth of the Saviour
On Spring
On Summer
On Winter
Heavenly Love
On the Death of Rebecca
On Death
On the Evening and Morning
On the Poetic Muse
Consequences of Happy Marriages
Lines
To the Gad-Fly
The Loss of Female Character

This book of poems, published originally in 1829 and reprinted in 1837, was the second book written by George M. Horton. It addresses themes of love, Christianity, slavery, death, and nature.

Horton was remarkable for several reasons: he was the first Black person and the first enslaved person to publish a book in the United States. He was the first enslaved person to protest their bondage through poetry. He is also the author of the first book of literature published in North Carolina. Horton attempted to gain enough money from publishing his poetry to buy his freedom. Unfortunately, this did not work, and Horton remained enslaved until 1865 when he was 67 years old. He traveled to Philadelphia but, disappointed with the racial discrimination even in the North, he emigrated to Liberia in 1867. - Summary by Elsie Selwyn