Life of George M. Horton E-Book

George Moses Horton

• Herausgeber: Charles River Editors
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 18

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Life of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North-Carolina is a short autobiography by the famous African-American poet.

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LIFE OF GEORGE M. HORTON

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The Colored Bard of North-Carolina

George Moses Horton

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Excited from reading the obedience of Nature to her Lord in the vessel on the sea.

EULOGY.

LIFE OF

GEORGE M. HORTON,

The Colored Bard of North-Carolina.

From

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF GEORGE M. HORTON,

THE COLORED BARD OF NORTH-CAROLINA.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF

LIFE OF

GEORGE M. HORTON,

The Colored Bard of North-Carolina.

From the importunate request of a few individuals, I assume the difficult task of writing a concise history of my life. But to open a scene of all the past occurrences of my life I shall not undertake, since I should fail by more than two-thirds in the matter. But if you will condescend to read it, I will endeavor to give a slight specimen entirely clear of exaggeration. A tedious and prolix detail in the matter may not be of any expected, since there is necessarily so much particularity required in a biographical narrative.

I was born in Northampton county, N C., near the line of Virginia, and within four miles