Lucy Terry Prince was a renowned 18th-century orator who is also the first known African-American poet. Poet Lucy Terry Prince was born in West Africa in the early half of the 18th century. Captured by slave traders when she was a young girl, she was brought to America and eventually became a part of the […]
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