"In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time though not his freedom. Horton became the first African American to be published in the South, protesting slavery in the form of verse"--Publisher
Themes
Genres: Non-Fiction
Categories: Biography, Cross Group, Oppression & Resilience
Content: Activism, Economic Struggle
Settings: North Carolina, Northern America, United States of America
Ethnicity: Unspecified
Gender: Boy/Man
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American
Religion: Christian
Cross Group Sub: Central, Direct, Negative, Positive, Resolving
Character Prominence: Dominant Main