In the canon
Minor Notes, Volume 1; Minor Notes, Volume 2
George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Form
- Form Poetry Collection
- Year
- Year 2023
- Pages
- Pages 290
Students at the University of North Carolina bought love poems to send to their sweethearts, and the poet who supplied them was enslaved, composing in his head on the long Sunday walk into Chapel Hill because nobody had taught him to write. George Moses Horton published The Hope of Liberty hoping the sales would buy his freedom; they did not, and he waited for the Union Army to reach him.
I want to die while you love me,
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