Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 126
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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(HORTON, GEORGE MOSES.) The Anti-Slavery Record. Volume 1, Number 10. Containing 3 poems by Horton. 16mo, original pictorial wrappers. An exceptional copy. (New York, 1835)

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Horton was known as North Carolina's "slave bard." He is considered to be the first African-American poet to write directly upon the subject of slavery. The poems appearing in this issue of The Anti-Slavery Record are: The Slave's Complaint, On Liberty, and an unidentified piece.<