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Reviewed on February 15, 2008
Gerzina (English, Dartmouth Coll.) shifts locales from her well-noted Black London: Life Before Emancipation to piece together the engaging and remarkable story of the love, family, defiance, and persistence of Lucy Terry Prince (1724-1821) and her husband, Abijah Prince (1705-94). The Princes were cash-poor, hard-working, self-made settlers, first as slaves and then as free persons in Massachusetts and Vermont, reveali...Log In or Sign Up to Read More