George C. Rowe
{{short description|American poet}}
{{More citations needed|date=April 2020}}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".{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6cptAAAAMAAJ&q=george+clinton+rowe&pg=PA167|title=Afro-American Encyclopaedia|last=Haley|first=James T.|date=January 25, 1895|website=|publisher=Haley & Florida|via=Google Books|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
Life and career
He was born in Litchfield, Connecticut.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fjfq8pS2UxkC&q=george+clinton+rowe&pg=PA342|title=African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology|first=Joan R.|last=Sherman|date=January 25, 1992|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=9780252062469|via=Google Books}}
He established the Sunday school with three Newtown children in his house.{{cite web|url=http://historichamptonroads.com/hm_wy95.htm |title=Little England Chapel-originally known as the Ocean Cottage Sunday School-built about 1879 |publisher=Historic Hampton Roads, Inc|year= 2010|access-date=2010-07-09}} The popularity of the Bible sessions called for an expanded space.{{cite web|url=http://littleenglandchapelfoundation.art.officelive.com/OurHistory.aspx |title=Our History |publisher=Little England Chapel Foundation |year=2010 |access-date=2010-07-09}}{{cite book |author1=Shull, Carol D. |author2=Savage, Beth L. |title=African American historic places |publisher=Preservation Press |location=Washington, D.C. |year=1994 |page= 503|isbn=0-471-14345-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wjZIkchWX5AC&q=%22Little+England+Chapel%22+daniel+cock&pg=RA8-PA503}}
He became a minister at the Plymouth Congregational Church in Charleston, South Carolina and published verses.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G-c9AQAAMAAJ&q=george+clinton+rowe&pg=PA167|title=Afro-American Encyclopedia: Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race|date=January 25, 1895|publisher=Haley & Florida|via=Google Books}} Rowe was also a printer at Virginia's Hampton Institute and established what became the Little England Chapel Sunday school.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RwU8zGDpLBkC&q=george+rowe+hampton+institute&pg=PA108|title=Virginia Landmarks of Black History: Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places|last=Loth|first=Calder|date=January 25, 1995|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=9780813916019|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Y1TAAAAIAAJ&q=george+rowe+hampton+institute|title=Connecticut Review|date=January 25, 1971|publisher=Board of Trustees for Connecticut State Colleges.|via=Google Books}}
Bibliography
- "Thoughts in Verse" (1887)
- "Toussaint L'Ouverture" (1890){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-9XtCY7cijMC&q=george+clinton+rowe&pg=PA263|title=The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature|first1=William L.|last1=Andrews|first2=Frances Smith|last2=Foster|first3=Trudier|last3=Harris|date=February 15, 2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198031758|via=Google Books}}
- "Our Heroes: Patriotic Poems on Men, Women, and sayings of the Negro race"
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Category:African-American poets
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