Bars Fight by Lucy Terry Prince

Author:Lucy Terry Prince
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Renard Press
Published: 2020-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Note on the Text

‘Bars Fight’ is a ballad composed by Lucy Terry Prince (c.1730–1821), which tells the tale of an ambush by Native Americans on two families in 1746 in a meadow near Deerfield, Massachusetts, known as ‘the Bars’. The poem, constituting the oldest known work by an African-American author, was passed on orally until it was recorded in Josiah Gilbert Holland’s History of Western Massachusetts in 1855. In some instances, spelling, punctuation and grammar have been silently corrected to make the text more appealing to the modern reader.

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