George Clinton Rowe (1853–1903) was an American missionary, minister, and poet. He is referred to in James T. Haley's ''Afro-American Encyclopaedia'' as the "Palmetto Poet".

Life and career

He was born in

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. He established the Sunday school with three Newtown children in his house. The popularity of the Bible sessions called for an expanded space. He became a minister at the Plymouth Congregational Church in

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and published verses. Rowe was also a printer at Virginia's

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and established what became the Little England Chapel Sunday school.

Bibliography

*"Thoughts in Verse" (1887) *"Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1890) *"Our Heroes: Patriotic Poems on Men, Women, and sayings of the Negro race"

References

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