Bars Fight, a ballad telling the tale of an ambush by Native Americans on two families in 1746 in a Massachusetts meadow, is the oldest known work by an African-American author. Passed on orally until it was recorded in Josiah Gilbert Holland’s History of Western Massachusetts in 1855, the ballad is a landmark in the history of literature that should be on every book lover’s shelves.'[This] publication of Lucy Terry Prince’s Bars Fight is a stellar example of bringing a truly madly deeply neglected text back to life. Bravo!' — Neglected Books
