West Africa (c 1724-July 11, 1821) (age ~97 yrs)
Lucy Terry Prince was a poet and a skilled orator. She is known as the author of the first poem composed by an African American woman. Terry was kidnapped in Africa as an infant and sold to Ebenezer Wells of Deerfield, Massachusetts. In 1756, Terry married Abijah Prince, a prosperous free Black man who purchased her freedom. Lucy Terry Prince was a remarkable woman whose many accomplishments included arguing a case before the Supreme Court. Although she was a poet, only one of her poems, a ballad called ‘Bars Fight’, has survived.
Remarkable Women 