| Author | Gerzina, Gretchen.
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| Title | Mr. and Mrs. Prince : how an extraordinary eighteenth-century family moved out of slavery and into legend / Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina ; researched with Anthony Gerzina.
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| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Published | New York : Amistad, c2008.
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| Description | 256 p. : ill., maps, geneal. table ; 22 cm.
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| ISBN | 978-0-06-051073-2 |
| ISBN | 0-06-051073-0 |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-051074-9 (pbk) |
| ISBN | 0-06-051074-9 (pbk) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-245) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: The attack -- Bijah's life with the Doolittles -- Bijah goes to war -- The Negro network -- Lucy enters -- Lucy grows up -- Courtship and marriage -- Daily life -- Getting to Guilford -- Battles on the home front -- Lucy goes to court -- Bijah's last years -- Betrayed -- The Negro house -- A tale of two couples.
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| Summary Note | Summary: A portrait of an African-American poet and her Revolutionary War veteran husband describing their court battle to retain their land in Vermont and Massachusetts when neighbors attempted to run them out of town.
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| Subjects | African Americans -- New England -- History -- 18th century -- Biography.
Freedmen -- New England -- History -- 18th century -- Biography.
Prince, Abijah, 1705 or 6-1794.
Prince, Lucy Terry, d. 1821.
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| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: E 185.18 G388 2008
mq243624: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 146390] |
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