Mr. and Mrs. Prince : How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend - Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

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Mr. and Mrs. Prince

How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend

By: Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

eBook | 17 January 2024

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Lucy Terry was a devoted wife and mother, and the first known African-American poet. Abijah Prince, her husband, was a veteran of the French and Indian Wars and an entrepreneur. Together they pursued what would become the cornerstone of the American dream — having a family and owning property where they could live, grow, and prosper. When bigoted neighbors tried to run them off their own property, they asserted their rights, as they would do many times, in court.

Merging comprehensive research and grand storytelling, Mr. and Mrs. Prince reveals the true story of a remarkable pre-Civil War African-American family, as well as the challenges that faced African-Americans who lived in the North.

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is the author and editor of several books, including Carrington, Black London (a New York Times notable book), Black Victorians/Black Victoriana, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. She is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College, where she is the first African-American woman to chair an Ivy League English Department. She has won grants from Fulbright and the National Endowment for Humanities and hosts "The Book Show," a nationally syndicated weekly radio program that airs on ninety stations across the country.

"Compelling ... History and mystery mix in this tale to make Mr. and Mrs. Prince as absorbing as it surprising and informative." — Christian Science Monitor

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