Mr. and Mrs. Prince
Subtitle: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend
Publisher: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; Amistad
Published: January 22, 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780060510732
Subjects: History; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; Cultural Heritage; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - State & Local - New England; History / General; General
Description: A portrait of an African-American poet and her Revolutionary War veteran husband describes their groundbreaking court battle to retain their land in Vermont and Massachusetts when neighbors attempted to run them out of town.
Table of contents: title: The Prince family genealogy; title: Map : where Princes' story takes place; title: Introduction : a quest; title: Part one : Bijah.; title: The attack; title: Bijah's life with the Doolittles; title: Bijah goes to war; title: The Negro network; title: Part two : Lucy.; title: Lucy enters; title: Lucy grows up; title: Courtship and marriage; title: Daily life; title: Part three : Landowners.; title: Getting to Guilford; title: Battles on the home front; title: Lucy goes to court; title: Bijah's last years; title: Part four : Sunderland.; title: Betrayed; title: The Negro house; title: A tale of two couples; title: A note on the legend