Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary 18th-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend
2017-01-05 12:15 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Springfield Museums, 21 Edwards Street, Springfield, MA, 01103, United States
Lucy Terry, a devoted wife and mother, was the first known African American poet and Abijah Prince, her husband, was a veteran of the French and Indian wars and an entrepreneur. Former slaves in Deerfield and Northfield, together they became property owners, original settlers of Vermont, along the way raising a family of six and using the courts to assert their rights against those who wanted to take their property.
