Born just outside of Raleigh, North Carolina on May 30, 1803,
Lunsford Lane exhibited entrepreneurial talent as a child and a
determination as an adult to buy his freedom. He is most famous for
writing a slave narrative that included descriptions of his business
activities while in bondage and his troubles securing his and his
family?s freedom. It was Lane?s entrepreneurship and dogged determination to
make a profit that led him on a sojourn from slavery to freedom.
