Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas

by Craig Thompson Friend

By challenging the rules of enslavement and, later, pushing the boundaries of free citizenship in North Carolina, Lunsford Lane (1803-79) became a folk hero to many enslaved Southerners, as well as a generation of abolitionists. Author of a unique "slave narrative" and a speaking partner with some of the era's greatest orators, including William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Highland Garnett, William Wells Brown, and Frederick Douglass, Lane became a celebrity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469685345
• ISBN13: 9781469685342
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 432 Pages