Vermont roadside marker recognizes African American poet

The big picture: The new marker was unveiled this week at the Interstate 91 welcome center in Guilford, Vermont, where Prince lived with her husband in the late 1700s.

• The marker states that Prince was stolen from Africa as a child and enslaved in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
• Prince became free after she married Abijah Prince in 1756, later settling on 100 acres in Guilford in 1769.

Details: "Bars Fight" recounts the 1746 attack on Deerfield settlers, per the AP.

• The poem “endured in oral tradition for over 100 years before appearing on the front page of the Springfield Daily Republican in 1854,” according to the historical marker.