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SUMMARY:Bars Fight from  Lucy Terry
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DESCRIPTION:\n	\"Bars Fight\" is a ballad poem written by Lucy Terry abo
	ut an attack upon two white families by Native Americans on August 21\, 17
	46. The incident occurred in an area of Deerfield\, Massachusetts\, called
	 \"The Bars\,\" which was a colonial term for a meadow. The poem was prese
	rved orally and not published until the November 20\, 1854\, issue of The 
	Springfield Daily Republican\, as an excerpt from the book History of West
	ern Massachusetts published the following year (1855) by Republican associ
	ate editor Josiah Gilbert Holland. [ https://archive.org/details/historyof
	western02holluoft/page/360/mode/2up?q=bars]\n\n\n\n	\"Bars Fight\" is beli
	eved to be the oldest known work of literature by an African American and 
	is the only known work by Lucy Terry.\n\n\n\n	After the word \"slay\"\, an
	 alternate oral transmission of the poem offers an accurate location and b
	ody count: \"Twas nigh unto Sam Dickson's mill / The Indians there five me
	n did kill.\" [ https://www.jstor.org/stable/44176226]\n\n\n\n	TEXT\n\n\n\
	n	https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/348-bars-fight-from-lucy-terry/\n\n\n\n
		OR\n\n\n\n	August 'twas the twenty-fifth\,\n        Seventeen hundred for
	ty-six\;\n        The Indians did in ambush lay\,\n        Some very valie
	nt men to slay\,\n        The names of whom I'll not leave out.\n        S
	amuel Allen like a hero fout\,\n        And though he was so brave and bol
	d\,\n        His face no more shall we behold.\n        Eleazer Hawks was 
	killed outright\,\n        Before he had time to fight\,—\n        Befor
	e he did the Indians see\,\n        Was shot and killed immediately.\n    
	    Oliver Amsden he was slain\,\n        Which caused his friends much gr
	ief and pain.\n        Simeon Amsden they found dead\,\n        Not many r
	ods distant from his head.\n        Adonijah Gillett we do hear\n        D
	id lose his life which was so dear.\n        John Sadler fled across the w
	ater\,\n        And thus escaped the dreadful slaughter.\n        Eunice A
	llen see the Indians coming\,\n        And hopes to save herself by runnin
	g\,\n        And had not her petticoats stopped her\,\n        The awful c
	reatures had not catched her\,\n        Nor tommy hawked her on her head\,
	\n        And left her on the ground for dead.\n        Young Samuel Allen
	\, Oh lack-a-day!\n        Was taken and carried to Canada.\n\n\n\n	 \n\n
	\n\n	 \n\n\n\n	\n\n	\"Bars Fight\" as published in The Springfield Daily 
	Republican\, November 20\, 1854\n\n
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