The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.

Biography & Memoir, Historical
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Author: Lunsford Lane ISBN: 1230000166540
Publisher: VolumesOfValue Publication: August 31, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Lunsford Lane
ISBN: 1230000166540
Publisher: VolumesOfValue
Publication: August 31, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.
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.

...I have not, in this publication attempted or desired to argue anything. It is only a simple narration of such facts connected with my own case, as I thought would be most interesting and instructive to readers generally. The facts will, I think, cast some light upon the policy of a slaveholding community, and the effect on the minds of the more enlightened, the more humane, and the Christian portion of the southern people, of holding and trading in the bodies and souls of men...

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The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.
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.

...I have not, in this publication attempted or desired to argue anything. It is only a simple narration of such facts connected with my own case, as I thought would be most interesting and instructive to readers generally. The facts will, I think, cast some light upon the policy of a slaveholding community, and the effect on the minds of the more enlightened, the more humane, and the Christian portion of the southern people, of holding and trading in the bodies and souls of men...

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