Bars Fight
Author | : Lucy Terry Prince |
Publisher | : Renard Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 2020-10-28 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781913724153 |
ISBN-10 | : 1913724158 |
Rating | : 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Bars Fight by : Lucy Terry Prince
Download or read book Bars Fight written by Lucy Terry Prince and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.