Bars Fight
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.

'[This] publication of Lucy Terry Prince's Bars Fight is a stellar example of bringing a truly madly deeply neglected text back to life. Bravo!' — Neglected Books
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Bars Fight
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.

'[This] publication of Lucy Terry Prince's Bars Fight is a stellar example of bringing a truly madly deeply neglected text back to life. Bravo!' — Neglected Books
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Bars Fight

Bars Fight

by Lucy Terry Prince
Bars Fight

Bars Fight

by Lucy Terry Prince

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Overview

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.

'[This] publication of Lucy Terry Prince's Bars Fight is a stellar example of bringing a truly madly deeply neglected text back to life. Bravo!' — Neglected Books

Product Details

BN ID: 2940163050536
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
Publication date: 10/01/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 682 KB

About the Author

Lucy Terry Prince (c.1730–1821) was taken to America as a slave, but her husband bought her her freedom in 1756. Bars Fight was her only work.
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