# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-moses-horton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:36:43.002Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-moses-horton"
name: "George Moses Horton"
slug: "george-moses-horton"
description: "George Moses Horton, was an African-American poet from North Carolina who was enslaved until Union troops, carrying the Emancipation Proclamation, reached North Carolina (1865). Horton is the first African-American author to be published in the United States. He is author of the first book of literature published in North Carolina and was known as the \"Slave Poet\"."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1797"
deathDate: "1883"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.78
  momentum:             1.266233766233766
  historical:           4.624984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B6_%CE%9C%CF%8C%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%B5%CF%82_%CE%A7%CF%8C%CF%81%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD"
    title: "Τζορτζ Μόουζες Χόρτον"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moses_Horton"
    title: "George Moses Horton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moses_Horton"
    title: "George Moses Horton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moses_Horton"
    title: "George Moses Horton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moses_Horton"
    title: "George Moses Horton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5542654"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump