Lunsford Lane (May 30, 1803 – June 27, 1879) was an entrepreneur tobacconist from North Carolina who bought freedom for himself and his family. He became a vocal abolitionist and wrote a slave narrative autobiography. His life and narrative shows the plight of slavery, even for the relatively privileged slaves.[2][3][4][5]
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Bassettwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Franklin, John Hope (1943). The free Negro in North Carolina, 1790–1860 (reprint 1995 ed.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 46–47, 145–147. ISBN 0-8078-4546-9. Retrieved 2009-08-10.