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Lucy Terry
Lucy Terry Prince, often credited as simply Lucy Terry, (c. 1730–1821) was brought to Rhode Island as a slave from Africa. Her future husband purchased her freedom before their marriage in 1756. She composed a ballad, "Bars Fight", about a 1746 incident. It was preserved orally until being published in 1855. It is considered the oldest known work of literature by an African American.〔Margaret Busby, ''Daughters of Africa'', London: Jonathan Cape, 1992, p. 16–17.〕
==Early life==
Terry was stolen from Africa and sold into slavery in Rhode Island as an infant.〔 She spent time in Rhode Island, up until the age of five, when she was sold to and later owned by Ebenezer Wells of Deerfield, Massachusetts, who allowed the five-year-old Terry to be baptized into the Christian faith during the Great Awakening.
A successful free black man named Abijah Prince from Curacao purchased her freedom and married her in 1756. They were married by a justice of the peace Ephraim Williams, he was later the founder of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts In 1764, the Princes settled in Guilford, Vermont, where all six of their children were born. Their names were Tatnai, Cesar, Drucilla, Durexa, Abijah, Jr and Festus. Cesar fought in the Revolutionary War.
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