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George Moses Horton

George Moses Horton is a North Carolina historical marker in Chatham County, dedicated 1999.

US 15/501 at SR 1700 (Mount Gilead Church Road) north of Pittsboro

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Slave poet. His The Hope of Liberty (1829) was first book by a black author in South. Lived on farm 2 mi. SE.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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North Carolina (Lucas, 1823), 1823, covering the location of George Moses Horton, with a pin at the marker's coordinates
North Carolina (Lucas, 1823), 1823, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.
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This marker is part of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, run by the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources jointly with the N.C. Department of Transportation. Marker texts and locations are the program's own, as the Department publishes them.

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