Embracing an account of his
early life, the redemption by purchase of
himself and family from slavery, And his
banishment from the place of his birth for
the crime of wearing a colored skin.
Published By Himself
Entered according to act of
Congress, in the year 1842, by Lunsford
Lane,
In the clerk's office of the District Court
of Massachusetts.
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The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C., 1842