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In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time though not his freedom. Horton became the first African American to be published in the South, protesting slavery in the form of verse.
About the Author
Don Tate is an the illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children, including Carter Reads The Newspaper (Peachtree, 2019) ; No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and his Kingdom in Kansas (Knopf, 2018) ; Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions (Charlesbridge, 2016) ; The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, (Eerdmans, 2015) ; Hope's Gift (Penguin) ; and The Cart That Carried Martin, (Charlesbridge) .He is the author of Strong As Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became The Strongest Man on Earth (Charlesbridge, 2017) ; Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton (Peachtree, 2015) ; and It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started To Draw (Lee & Low Books, 2012) . Don is a two-time recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats Book Author Award, the winner of a 2016 Christopher Award, and a 2016 Texas Institute of Letters book awards recipient.His forthcoming book, William Still and his Freedom Stories: Father of the Underground Railroad will publish with Peachtree Publishing in November 2020.
