"The Colored Bard of North-Carolina," Part 1
If Old South slavery was so awful, how did it produce poet George Moses Horton?--Through his life and verse, we seek out an answer.
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If Old South slavery was so awful, how did it produce poet George Moses Horton?--Through his life and verse, we seek out an answer.
Horton's selection of poetry begins by assuring white audiences that the black author has no intentions of subverting white supremacy.
Though the Old South's feudal institutions treated slaves as mere property, they lived in and helped create a rapidly modernizing world.
Horton was a clear example of black Americans' "nation within a nation," contributing to wider American life while retaining unique experience.