author
T. W. (True Worthy) Hoit
b. 1815
A little-known 19th-century American writer, he is remembered today for a fiercely pro-slavery tract published in St. Louis on the eve of the Civil War. Surviving records also link him to poetry and a later oration on George Washington, hinting at a broader literary life than his best-known title suggests.
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The Right of American Slavery
by T. W. (True Worthy) Hoit
About the author
Born in 1815, T. W. Hoit—identified in library and archival records as True Worthy Hoit—was an American author active in the mid-1800s. He is most clearly documented through his published works rather than through detailed personal biography, and the surviving record appears to be quite thin.
His best-known book is The Right of American Slavery (1860), issued in St. Louis and presented as the work of a member of the St. Louis Literary and Philosophical Association. The book is openly pro-slavery, and that stance is central to how his name survives in historical catalogs today.
Other records show that Hoit also wrote The Model Man (1866), an oration on George Washington, and the New York Public Library lists a manuscript of his poetic compositions. Beyond these traces, reliable biographical details about his life, career, and death are hard to confirm from readily available sources.