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Lunsford Lane
About
Lunsford Lane was an entrepreneur tobacconist from North Carolina who bought freedom for himself and his family. He became a vocal opponent of slavery and wrote a slave narrative autobiography. His life and narrative shows the plight of slavery, even for the relatively privileged slaves.