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Lucy Prince lived in Sunderland for about 25 years, from 1795 to 1821. Three children lived with her in a small shack; they struggled to get by. She is best known today as our country’s first African American poet. She wrote the poem “Bars Fight” in 1746, when she was 21 years old and enslaved in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Lucy was considered devoutly religious and was a member of the Manchester Congregational Church. In this presentation, you will learn about her life, her descendants, and her struggles to fit into a white society here in southern Vermont.