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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. - Couverture souple

Horton, George Moses

 
9781946640727: 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.

Synopsis

Large Print Edition 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.

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I am the oldest child that my mother had by her second husband, and she had four younger than myself, one boy and three girls. But to account for my age is beyond the reach of my power. I was early fond of music, with an extraordinary appetite for singing lively times, for which I was a little remarkable. In the course of a few years after my birth, from the sterility of his land, my old master assumed the notion to move into Chatham, a more fertile and fresh part of country recently settled, and whose waters were far more healthy and agreeable. I here become a cow-boy, which I followed for perhaps ten years in succession, or more.

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