A number of HEW
's epigraphs to chapters remain untraced, and some may be her own work. Those identified bear witness to considerable reading: among English writers she quotes Shelley
, Byron
, Eliza Cook
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25 August 1746: An Indian ambush at Deerfield, Massachusetts,...
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25 August 1746
An Indian ambush at Deerfield, Massachusetts, inspired the Black slave Lucy Terry
to compose an oral ballad entitled Bars Fight.
Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press, 2002.