University Names Building After a Local Slave and Poet

by Adam Hochberg, NPR

The University of North Carolina is naming a building after a slave who worked nearby and used to come to campus to recite poetry. Decades before the Civil War, George Moses Horton was known on campus as a talented speaker and poet, and students often paid him to create poems for them.

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, March 30, 2006