The narrative of Lunsford Lane, formerly of Raleigh, N.C.
Subtitle: 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
By: published by himself
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; Slaves; Freed persons; History; Slavery; Slaves' writings, American
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South, beginnings to 1920.  It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

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Transcribed from: 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 / published by himself. 2nd ed. Boston : J.G. Torrey, printer, 1842. 54, 4 p. ; 15 cm. Second edition was published "without any enlargement or material alteration"--T.p. verso.

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