YouTube Recording of "Bearing Witness and the Endurance of Voice"
Tue, May 10
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This is an on demand link to a YouTube recording of Shanta Lee Gander's May 9, 2022 presentation on Lucy Terry Prince’s importance as the first African-American poet who fought for her rights within the landscape of early Vermont. Use of RSVP button not needed.
Time & Location
May 10, 2022, 8:50 PM EDT – May 24, 2022, 11:59 PM EDT
YouTube
About the Event
"Bearing Witness and the Endurance of Voice"
Shanta Lee Gander, is an award winning author and MFA candidate in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
{This program was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities "Humanities to Go" program.}
Lucy Terry Prince was born in Africa, where she was kidnapped by slave traders and transported to Rhode Island. While still enslaved in 1746, she wrote “Bars Fight,” the oldest known poem in the United States written by an African American. Prince later regained her freedom and moved to Vermont with her husband, Abijah Prince, and fought for her family’s land rights all the way to the highest court in Vermont. In this presentation, Shanta Lee Gander illustrates Prince’s importance as a poet and orator, and as one unafraid to fight for her rights within the landscape…