Lucy Terry Prince (17 results)

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Mixed Media Product. Condition: New. Bars Fight, a ballad telling the tale of an ambush by Native Americans on two families in 1746 in a Massachusetts meadow, is the oldest known work by an African-American author.Passed on orally until it was recorded in Josiah Gilbert Holland's History of Western Massachusetts in 1855, the ballad is a landmark in the history of literature that should be on every book lover's shelves.…

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Novelty. Condition: new. Novelty. Bars Fight, a ballad telling the tale of an ambush by Native Americans on two families in 1746 in a Massachusetts meadow, is the oldest known work by an African-American author.Passed on orally until it was recorded in Josiah Gilbert Holland's History of Western Massachusetts in 1855, the ballad is a landmark in the history of literature that should be on every book lover's shelves. Bars Fight, a ballad describing an ambush by Native Americans on two families in 1746 in Massachusetts, is the oldest known work by an African-American author. Passed on orally until it was recorded in History of Western Massachusetts in 1855, the ballad is a landmark in the history of literature that should be on every book lover's shelves. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Novelty. Condition: new. Novelty. Bars Fight, a ballad telling the tale of an ambush by Native Americans on two families in 1746 in a Massachusetts meadow, is the oldest known work by an African-American author.Passed on orally until it was recorded in Josiah Gilbert Holland's History of Western Massachusetts in 1855, the ballad is a landmark in the history of literature that should be on every book lover's shelves. Bars Fight, a ballad describing an ambush by Native Americans on two families in 1746 in Massachusetts, is the oldest known work by an African-American author. Passed on orally until it was recorded in History of Western Massachusetts in 1855, the ballad is a landmark in the history of literature that should be on every book lover's shelves. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Mixed Media Product. Condition: New. Bars Fight, a ballad telling the tale of an ambush by Native Americans on two families in 1746 in a Massachusetts meadow, is the oldest known work by an African-American author.Passed on orally until it was recorded in Josiah Gilbert Holland's History of Western Massachusetts in 1855, the ballad is a landmark in the history of literature that should be on every book lover's shelves.…

Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition of the first book-appearance of the poem "Bars Fight" by Lucy Terry, which is believed to be the oldest known work of literature by an African American. 619pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and decorated in blind. Good, binding a little tender, worn and softened corners, sunned spine with loss, bookplate to front pastedown, tidemarks to prelim and terminal sheets, occasional spotting to pages, and evidence of biopredation. Terry's poem was preserved orally and not published until the November 20, 1854 issue of The Springfield Daily Republican. It was published here in book-form the following year by Republican editor Josiah Gilbert Holland, and included in this history of Western Massachusetts on account of its content. A ballad poem written as a first-person account of frontier violence, it portrays an attack on two white families by Native Americans. The incident occurred in an area of Deerfield, MA, called "The Bars," which was a colonial term for a meadow. After this 1855 posthumous publication, "Bars Fight" remained undiscovered until 1942, when it was published in Lorenzo Greene's The Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776. Lucy Terry Prince, often credited as simply Lucy Terry (c. 1733-1821), was an American settler and poet. Kidnapped in Africa and enslaved, she was taken to the British colony of Rhode Island. Her future husband purchased her freedom before their marriage in 1756. "Bars Fight" is the only surviving work by Terry, though she was said to have been a prolific poet.…