Faye Gibbons

"I was born in South Carolina, a slave," Horace King remembered in 1878 when he was an old man. King's birthday was September 8, 1807. His father, Edmund King, was a mulatto, meaning he had both black and white people in his family tree. King's mother was of mixed Catawba Indian and black Ancestry.
...Like a few of those blacks whose memories were recorded, Horace King likely learned to read as a child. Certainly as an adult he believed in education. "Ignorance breeds poverty," he often said.