1854

1 folder

Acrostic poems to Mary McClean and Sophia Alexander (ca. 1854) by George Moses Horton, an enslaved African American poet from Chatham County, N.C. These were commissioned by Torrance while a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Torrance and Banks families papers
Torrance and Banks families--Subject Files and Photographs
Torrance and Banks families papers

Papers of Hugh Torrance (1743-1816) and his descendants, including his son, James Galbraith Torrance (1784-1847), and his grandson Richard Allison Torrance (1833-1927), concerning their extensive mercantile, planting, and milling operations at Cedar Grove plantation in northern Mecklenburg County, N.C. Includes account books, Revolutionary War service records, family correspondence, land and estate records, information on enslaved persons, contracts with overseers, two acrostics by George Moses Horton (an enslaved African American poet), and poems and notes by area schoolmaster Peter Stuart Ney. Digitized content only includes a small number of documents relating to enslaved persons, letters from Richard Allison Torrance, and the George Moses Horton acrostics.

Horton, George Moses, 1798?-approximately 1880

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

manuscripts (documents)

eng

Horton, George Moses, 1798?-approximately 1880

Acrostics
Enslaved persons

North Carolina--Mecklenburg County
North Carolina--Chatham County

Torrance and Banks families papers

Manuscripts--10th Floor, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Manuscript 87

Box 11, folder 114

https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/466

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