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born in Northampton County, the property of William Horton who also owned his mother, his five older half sisters, and his younger brother and three sisters. As a child, he moved with his master to Chatham County, taught himself to read, and began composing in his head a series of stanzas based on t .. .. more >>

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Biography of George Moses Horton
George Moses Horton could rightly be called North Carolina's first professional poet. Born the property of Chatham County yeoman farmer William Horton, ...
http://www.ncwriters.org/services/lhof/inductees/ghorton.htm

George Moses Horton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Moses Horton (1797?-1883?) was an African-American slave who composed poetry. He was born into slavery on a tobacco farm in rural Chatham County, ...
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George Moses Horton Project
George Moses Horton was the Historic Poet Laureate of Chatham County, North Carolina.
http://www.chathamarts.org/horton/

George Moses Horton, 1798?-ca.1880
Biography of George Moses Horton, 1798?-ca. 1880. ... By the time he was twenty, George Moses Horton had begun visiting the campus of The University of ...
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/hortonlife/bio.html

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